purlieu
Example Sentences
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“Have you been in a purlieu tonight? Confess. Say, ‘Guilty.’
From The New Yorker • Jan. 13, 2020
Then I fled her disdains and derisions To cities of pleasure, And made me the crony of idlers In every purlieu.
From Time's Laughingstocks and Other Verses by Hardy, Thomas
But such betrayals never escaped him when, in one of his inimitable disguises, he penetrated to the purlieu of Whitechapel, to the dens of Limehouse.
From The Golden Scorpion by Rohmer, Sax
And the perambulation, whereby the purlieu is deafforested, is called pourallee, i. e. perambulatio.
From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George
I held Farrell tightly beneath the elbow, and steered through this enchanted purlieu.
From Foe-Farrell by Quiller-Couch, Arthur Thomas, Sir
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.