1) Area
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1) Confines 2) Confines or bounds 3) Environs or neighborhood 4) Hangout 5) Outlying district 6) Region 7) Regular hangout 8) Surrounding neighborhood
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Purlieu is a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district. It was a term of the old Forest law, and meant, as defined by John Manwood, Treatise of the Lawes of the Forest (1598, 4th ed. 1717),{cquote|a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest [which] was once forest-land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations mad...
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land disafforested by Edward I but still subject to certain restrictions on hunting (P 205); land afforested (in the legal sense) and subsequently disafforested (L 238); lands put out of forests, and therefore no longer subject to regards, by perambulation under the Charter of the Forest (1217 and numerous confirmations) to restore them to thei...
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a person's usual haunts; neighbourhood
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• (n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. • (n.) Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.
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1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. 'Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play.' (Milton) ... 2. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent...
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land disafforested by Edward I but still subject to certain restrictions on hunting (P 205); land afforested (in the legal sense) and subsequently disafforested (L 238); lands put out of forests, and therefore no longer subject to regards, by perambulation under the Charter of the Forest (1217 and numerous confirmations) to restore them to their ex...
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Pur'lieu noun [ Corrupted (by influence of
lieu place) from Old French
puralée ,
poralée (equiv. to Late Latin
perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through);
por (L.
pro , confused, however, with Latin
per through) +
alée...
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noun an outer adjacent area of any place
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environs or neighborhood. · a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds. · a person's haunt or resort. · an outlying district or region, as of a town or city. · 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 st...
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