purlieu
purlieu
Definition
pur·lieu (pʉrl′yo̵̅o̅′, pʉr′lo̵̅o̅′)
noun
- Historical an outlying part of a forest, exempted from forest laws and returned to private owners
- a place that one visits often or habitually; haunt
- bounds; limits
- environs
- an outlying part, as of a city
Etymology: altered (infl. by Fr lieu, place) < Anglo-Fr puralee < OFr puralée < puraler, to go through < pur-, por- (< L pro-, for, but used for per-, through) + aler, to go: see alley
purlieu
Synonyms
purlieu
n.
Browse dictionary entries near purlieu
- purl
- Purkinje fiber
- Purkinje cell
- purity
- puritanism
- puritanical
- Puritan ethic
- Puritan
- purist
- purism
- purlin
- purloin
- puromycin
- purple
- purple-fringed orchis
- purple gallinule
- purple grackle
- Purple Heart
- purple martin
- purplish
