单词 | purlieu wood |
释义 | > as lemmaspurlieu wood purlieu wood n. now historical a wood situated in the purlieu of a forest. ΚΠ 1750 H. Purefoy Let. Sept. (1931) ii. 410 I had a case drawn up by an Attorney to know how far the rights of the owners of Purlieu woods extended. 1794 in Jas. Donaldson Agric. Surv. Northampt. 37 Purlieu-woods are those woods which are situate immediately in the vicinity of the forest. 1976 Jrnl. Ecol. 64 133 The coppice system..was predominant, with rotations of sixteen to eighteen years in forest woods, and rather less in purlieu woods. < as lemmas |
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