What is "purlieus"

Usage examples of "purlieus".

Out in the purlieus, though, many things happen which we do not hear of in the towns.

I knew they were after caviar, the black pearls of the Gathered Waters, famous all over the purlieus of the South, so they say.

When I had come from Bannerwell to the Bright Demesne after the battle, it had been across the purlieus rather than by the long road.

Well, the Guest House of Vorbold’s is as secure a place as exists in all the purlieus and demesnes.

Pay me, as you’d pay anyone, and I’ll seek Peter Priss to the end of the lands and purlieus for you.

Of their plans to raise up the hundred thousand from their long sleep and bring them all to the purlieus of Lake Yost and the Bright Demesne?

Their nurse had gone into hysterics, Hob had stayed out till midnight scouring the purlieus of the forest, the cooks had burnt the joint for dinner, and the sergeant-at-arms had polished all the armor twice and sharpened all the swords and axes to a razor blade in expectation of an immediate invasion.

In the daytime the cows were turned into the high stubble and weeds which had been left by the harvest sickles, while the pigs were driven into the purlieus of the forest where boys beat the trees to supply them with acorns.

It was at the edge of town, where the street became a road that ran on beyond the ordered and measured lawns, between small, random houses and barren fields—the small, cheap houses which compose the purlieus of such towns.