| 单词 | purlieu |
| 释义 | purlieu /perr"looh, perrl"yooh/, n. 1. purlieus, environs or neighborhood. 2. a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds. 3. a person's haunt or resort. 4. an outlying district or region, as of a town or city. 5. a piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws. [1475-85; alter. (simulating F lieu place) of earlier parlewe, parley, paraley purlieu of a forest < AF purale(e) a going through, equiv. to pur ( < L pro for, PRO1, confused with per through) + aller (see ALLEY)] |
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