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purlieu
(historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
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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.