purlieu

Example Sentences

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

From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020

He knew Leicester Square, its every place and purlieu; and among others one where he could pitch upon a “pal.”

From The Child Wife by Reid, Mayne

They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'

From Prose Fancies by Le Gallienne, Richard

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

The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover.

From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Hardy, Thomas