Purlieu

It is remarkable that the term purlieu is never once mentioned in this long roll of parchment. ❋ Gilbert White (1756)

A purlieu is a familiar or outlying place; a purview is a range or scope. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"Even in the darkest purlieu of Morocco's underworld," Eberhardt writes, "such men can reach the magic horizon where they are free to build their dream-palaces of delight." ❋ Jesse Kornbluth (2011)

Stuck with his family in a purlieu of Rome densely populated by other displaced Jews, he immerses himself in his memories, which include seeing his father murdered by Cossacks and, just as hauntingly, informing on his cousin for Zionist activity. ❋ Sam Sacks (2011)

Carmine stood listening to the sound of his footsteps retreating down the hall, and prayed that his most beloved friend would chance upon a greener feminine field in his own purlieu. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2009)

Antony asked, relieved to discuss something inarguably in his purlieu. ❋ Colleen McCullough (2007)

As a purlieu hunter, I have hitherto beaten about the circuit of the forest of this microcosm, and followed only those outward adventitious causes. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Dyer Reports 1592 327 En le manor dun Fortescue de S. adjoynont al dit chace, come en le purlieu del chase.. le libertie del purlieu remayna unextincted. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Having sent in his card, he waited a long while in that lofty purlieu. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Sir Everard Powell was there in his bath-chair at twelve, with a doctor on one side of him and a friend on the other, in some purlieu of the House, and did his duty like a fine old Briton as he was. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We were often crossing it on one errand or other, but now we were especially going to see the gipsy quarter of Seville, which disputes with that of Granada the infamy of the loathsomest purlieu imaginable. ❋ Unknown (2004)

We had refused with loathing the offer of those gipsy jades to dance for us in their noisome purlieu at Triana, but we were not proof against the chance of seeing some gipsy dancing in a cafe-theater one night in Seville. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Purlew may have originated in a scribal error, or as a pseudo-etymological spelling, erroneously associating the word with lew, leu, LIEU, place; app. it did not appear in law Fr. till later, when it was prob. taken over from Eng., and Gallicized as purlieu: see quot. 1574 1574 in J. ❋ Unknown (2004)

"That does not come within my purview" is a jurisdictional statement; "...does not come within my purlieu" is a geographical one. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Hmm, "nonce," "chiaroscuro," and "purlieu" were the only ones I knew -- and I agree with elck that 3 out of 18 definitely equates to duncehood. ❋ Unknown (2004)

Same way lots of white dudes came uptown looking for black hookers, because these girls were something outside of they purlieu, so to speak. ❋ McBain, Ed, 1926- (2001)

Captain Duncan Sinclair, in whose purlieu the liquor lay, had taken it upon himself to water the rum down to what was known as “grog.” ❋ Colleen McCullough (2000)

I drew my cloak to me and pulled the leaden coffer from it; and I held the coffer above my head in both my hands; and I cast it, cheering as I cast it, out of my unseen cloak of air, out of the purlieu of the ship, out of the universe that the coffer and I had known, and into the new creation as final offering from the old. ❋ Wolfe, Gene (1987)