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

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

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

“I was pricking through the purlieus of the forest after that Beast, you know, when I met with a solemn friar of orders grey, and he told me. It’s the very latest news.”

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White