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单词 purlieu
释义
purlieu
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n

The area directly around or outside of a place is called its purlieu. In a sense, a city's suburbs can also be thought of as its purlieus. This word usually shows up in its plural form, as in "the purlieus of the palace."
You can use the noun purlieu for any outlying or nearby areas, or even to mean "usual haunts," like the used record shops and cafes where you and your friends normally hang out. Originally, a purlieu was a term used in Britain's now-obsolete forest law for land adjacent to a forest. It probably comes from the Anglo-French puralee, "a going round to settle the boundaries."
WORD FAMILY
purlieu: purlieus
USAGE EXAMPLES
The pigs were driven into the purlieus of the forest, where boys beat the trees to supply them with acorns.
T. H. White, The Once and Future King(1958)
But, Terry added, the maze and its leafy purlieus were also vital as an escape from the overwhelming busy-ness of court life.
BBC(Oct 09, 2015)
In the cottages of Stratford, or in the purlieus of Blackfriars?
Rameur, E., The Catholic World; Volume I, Issue...(2012)
n an outer adjacent area of any place
Syn|Hyper
environs
geographic area, geographic region, geographical area, geographical region
a demarcated area of the Earth
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