purlieus
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Or a cumulative juggernaut that is operating outside the purlieus of human agency.
From New York Times ● Mar. 11, 2017
In the academic purlieus of Chanin's 46th Street Theatre, where Tait University of Good News was founded three years ago, last week another institution of learning was born.
From Time Magazine Archive
Senator Pepper, from the less gilded purlieus of northwest Florida, stands by everything Franklin Roosevelt has ever done or presumably will do.
From Time Magazine Archive
From there, the controversy spread to the mossy purlieus of British universities.
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
