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Word: Purlieu
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
late 15th century (denoting a tract on the border of a forest): probably an alteration (suggested by French lieu ‘place’) of Anglo-Norman French puralee ‘a going round to settle the boundaries’
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈpəːljuː
Dialects: British English
Definition:
the area near or surrounding a place
Short Definition:area near or surrounding place
Examples:- the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge
Definition:
a tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws
Short Definition:tract on border of forest
Examples:- they wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law
