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WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun purlieu has 1 sense
- purlieu(n = noun.location) environs - an outer adjacent area of any place; is a kind of geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
CIDE DICTIONARY
purlieu, n. [Corrupted (by influence of lieu place) fr. OF. puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. per through) + alée. See Pro-, and Alley.].
- Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. [1913 Webster]"Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied
In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play." [1913 Webster] - Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. [1913 Webster]"brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court." [1913 Webster]
OXFORD DICTIONARY
purlieu, n. (pl. purlieus)
1 a person's bounds or limits.
2 a person's usual haunts.
3 Brit. hist. a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
4 (in pl.) the outskirts; an outlying region.
1 a person's bounds or limits.
2 a person's usual haunts.
3 Brit. hist. a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
4 (in pl.) the outskirts; an outlying region.
Etymology
ME purlew, prob. alt. after F lieu place f. AF purale(e), OF pourallee a going round to settle the boundaries f. po(u)raler traverse