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Значения термина purlieu на английском

An outer adjacent area of any place.

Использование термина purlieu на английском
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But some dim purlieu of the Edgware Road.
Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, February 25, 1914
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The mission occupied eight or ten ares of enclosed land, a barren purlieu that held a few goats and burros.
Blood Meridian
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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
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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
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Sir, -I recently informed a poster erector that he was illegally affixing a poster within the purlieu of a polling station.
The Irish Times
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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
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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
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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
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"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 через время