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What is a purlieu?

What is a purlieu? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
  2. The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
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It is, in fact, a purlieu where the public-houses are overcrowded and the baths not places of great resort.
The girl was brought up among exiles and political criminals in the purlieu of Montmartre.
A great fear seized her that it would be impossible to keep Hamlyn's purlieu, and she was stricken with panic.
The mission occupied eight or ten ares of land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
Even if deemed representative of the overall type and deriving from the Terminal Period IVb destruction, this sub-type may typiry Hasanlu and its purlieu.
From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.

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