purlieu

An outlying or neighboring area.

Outskirts; the environs.

A place that one frequents.

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.

plural The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris.

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.

Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.

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.

an outer adjacent area of any place