Definitions for purlieu

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purlieu pur·lieu

Spelling: [pur-loo, purl-yoo]

IPA: /ˈpɜr lu, ˈpɜrl yu/

Purlieu is a 7 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 13 points.

You can make 108 anagrams from letters in purlieu (eilpruu).

Definitions for purlieu

noun

1. purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
2. a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.
3. a person's haunt or resort.
4. an outlying district or region, as of a town or city.
5. a piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws.

Origin of purlieu

1475-85; alteration (simulating French lieu place) of earlier parlewe, parley, paraley purlieu of a forest Anglo-French purale(e) a going through, equivalent to pur (Latin prō for, Examples for purlieu

From the eleventh story up, its wide windows surveyed every purlieu of Manhattan.

Hamlyn's purlieu had never known such gaieties as during the fifteen years of Mrs. Allerton's married life.

It is, in fact, a purlieu where the public-houses are overcrowded and the baths not places of great resort.

Eye of mocker has not seen, nor foot of unbeliever trod this purlieu, the last to receive his blessing.

The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.

A great fear seized her that it would be impossible to keep Hamlyn's purlieu, and she was stricken with panic.

Each forest was surrounded by its "purlieu," or belt of pasturage, for the deer to graze in.

Fred Allerton could see the great old elms that surrounded Hamlyn's purlieu; and his eyes were fixed steadily upon them.

The girl was brought up among exiles and political criminals in the purlieu of Montmartre.