(in pl) environs or neighbourhood
(in pl) confines or bounds
a place frequently visited; a haunt
land once part of, but later separated from, an English royal forest
[Middle English purlewe land on the border of an English royal forest, esp land formerly part of the forest, alteration of early French puralé inspection of a boundary by walking round it, from Old French puraler to go through, from pur- pro-2 + aler to go]