purlieu
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker ● Jan. 13, 2020
From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.
From Out of the Air by Inez Haynes Gillmore
The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.
From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 10, Slice 6 "Foraminifera" to "Fox, Edward" by Various
"Yes—'tis not our greatest doings that the world gets wind of," said the furmity-woman, who, lately settled in this purlieu, sat among the rest.
From The Mayor of Casterbridge by Thomas Hardy
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 Thomas Hardy
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