Thesaurus: purlieu

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1. n. 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.
2. n. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
3. n. an outer adjacent area of any place
4. 1. 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. Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. Milton. 2. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.
5. In root construction, a horizontal member supported on theprincipals and supporting the common rafters.
6. n an outer adjacent area of any place