| 单词 | purlieu |
| 释义 | purlieu n. (pl. purlieus) 1. a person's bounds or limits. 2. a person's usual haunts. 3. Brit. hist. a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws. 4. (in pl.) the outskirts; an outlying region. Etymology: ME purlew, prob. alt. after F lieu place f. AF purale(e), OF pourallee a going round to settle the boundaries f. po(u)raler traverse |
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