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Meanings of purlieu in inglés

An outer adjacent area of any place.

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Examples for "environs"
Examples for "environs"
1
In the environs of Mogador, these doves are the principal birds shot.
Travels in Morocco, Volume 2.
2
The spot commanded a full view of the town and its environs.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
3
All before her and alongside lay the squalid environs of the town.
The Call of the Canyon
4
This need for spruced-up environs at Christmas is practically in our DNA.
Jamaica Observer
5
Fever has always been the dreaded goddess of the environs of Rome.
A History of Rome During the Later Republic and Early Principate
Usage of purlieu in inglés
1
But some dim purlieu of the Edgware Road.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
2
The mission occupied eight or ten ares of enclosed land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
Blood Meridian
3
The corn grown on the upland side of the borough was garnered by farmers who lived in an eastern purlieu called Durnover.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
4
It had been expected that the red monster would raise its head, if at all, in some purlieu of the east side.
An Original Belle
5
Sir, -I recently informed a poster erector that he was illegally affixing a poster within the purlieu of a polling station.
The Irish Times
6
The year was 1895; the place, the Cadogan Hotel in Sloane Street, set amid the leafy purlieu of London squares and grandiose mansions.
The Irish Times
7
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.
The Iron Game: A Tale of the War
8
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.
The Golden Scorpion
9
"Yes-'tisnot our greatest doings that the world gets wind of," said the furmity-woman ,who ,latelysettled in this purlieu, sat among the rest.
The Mayor of Casterbridge
Purlieu through the time