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Meanings of purlieu in английском

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 английском
        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