purlieus
Example Sentences
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Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.
From New York Times • Mar. 11, 2017
But pure imagination must have been responsible for Gary's artistic ease in inhabiting the soft purlieus of the feminine psyche otherwise occupied by Jimson's earthy early love, Sara Monday.
From Time Magazine Archive
Last week Atlas, still little known beyond the purlieus of Wall Street, acquired control of two well known investment trusts, and with them, management contracts.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was also known in the more anonymous purlieus of Wall Street as a smart man with a dollar.
From Time Magazine Archive
The pigs were driven into the purlieus of the forest, where boys beat the trees to supply them with acorns.
From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White
