purlieu

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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

Then I fled her disdains and derisions    To cities of pleasure, And made me the crony of idlers    In every purlieu.

From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas

But such betrayals never escaped him when, in one of his inimitable disguises, he penetrated to the purlieu of Whitechapel, to the dens of Limehouse.

From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax

It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment. 

From The Natural History of Selborne, Vol. 1 by Morley, Henry

Surely, though we place hell under earth, the devil's walk and purlieu is about it.

From Religio Medici, Hydriotaphia, and the Letter to a Friend by Browne, Thomas, Sir