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purlieu

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7 lettersPronunciation /ˈpɜːljuː/Part of speech nounSorted eilpruuStarts with PEnds with U0 clues
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Definitions

  1. an outer adjacent area of any place

Word origin

From Middle English purlewe (“piece of land on the edge of a forest”), modification under the influence of Old French lieu (“place”) of porale, purale (“royal perambulation”), from Old French porale, from poraler (“to traverse”), from por- (“forth”) (from Latin prō-) + aler, aller (“to go”).

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  • Whether Lady Anne knew or suspected who it was that drew his steps from the purlieus of fashion he knew not, nor held himself bound to explain.
  • Bred up, like a bailiff or a shabby attorney, about the purlieus of the Inns of Court, Shepherd’s Inn is always to be found in the close neighbourhood of Lincoln’s-Inn Fields, and the Temple.
  • The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.

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