Meanings of purlieu in inglés

But some dim purlieu of the Edgware Road.

The mission occupied eight or ten ares of enclosed land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.

The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover.

It had been expected that the red monster would raise its head, if at all, in some purlieu of the east side.

Sir, -I recently informed a poster erector that he was illegally affixing a poster within the purlieu of a polling station.

The year was 1895; the place, the Cadogan Hotel in Sloane Street, set amid the leafy purlieu of London squares and grandiose mansions.

She was forced to enter the noisome purlieu alone, even the maid's devotion rebelling against the nameless horror small-pox has for the African.

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.

"Yes-'tisnot our greatest doings that the world gets wind of," said the furmity-woman ,who ,latelysettled in this purlieu, sat among the rest.