purlieu
nounAn outlying or neighboring area.
nounOutskirts; the environs.
nounA place that one frequents.
nounLand 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.
nounplural The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris.
nounOriginally, 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.
nounHence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
nounThe ground on the edges of a
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an outer adjacent area of any place