Purlieu

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. An outlying or neighboring area.
  • n. Outskirts; the environs.
  • n. A place that one frequents.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
  • n. The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. 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.
  • n. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Land added to a royal forest by unlawful encroachment, but afterward disafforested, and restored to the former owners, its bounds and extent being settled by perambulation.
  • n. plural The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris.
  • WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
  • n. an outer adjacent area of any place
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    environs    neighborhood    bound   
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