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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.
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Purlieus
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