Word Meanings - PURLIEU - Book Publishers vocabulary database

puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest,

Additional info about word: PURLIEU

puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 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 district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St. James." brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court. Macaulay.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PURLIEU)

• Outskirts
• Border
• outpost
• purlieu
• environs
• precincts

Related words: (words related to PURLIEU)

• PURLIEU
  puralée, poralée (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. 1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest,
• ENVIRONS
  The parts or places which surround another place, or lie in its neighborhood; suburbs; as, the environs of a city or town. Chesterfield.
• BORDEREAU
  A note or memorandum, esp. one containing an enumeration of documents.
• BORDER
  bord a border; of German origin; cf. MHG. borte border, trimming, G. borte trimming, ribbon; akin to E. board in sense 8. See Board, n., 1. The outer part or edge of anything, as of a garment, a garden, etc.; margin; verge; brink. Upon the borders
• BORDERER
  One who dwells on a border, or at the extreme part or confines of a country, region, or tract of land; one who dwells near to a place or region. Borderers of the Caspian. Dyer.
• OUTPOST
  A post or station without the limits of a camp, or at a distance from the main body of an army, for observation of the enemy. The troops placed at such a station.
• IMBORDER
  To furnish or inclose with a border; to form a border of. Milton.
• SEA-BORDERING
  Bordering on the sea; situated beside the sea. Drayton.
• SUBORDER
  A division of an order; a group of genera of a little lower rank than an order and of greater importance than a tribe or family; as, cichoraceous plants form a suborder of Compositæ.
• EMBORDER
  To furnish or adorn with a border; to imborder.