purlieu

n. outlying area of a city, outskirts; area at the edge of a forest; a place which is frequently visited

Purlieu is a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district. It was a term of the old English forest law, and meant, as defined by Manwood (Treatise of the Forest Laws), a certain territory of ground adjoining unto the forest,. . .which. . .was once forest-land and afterwards disafforested by the perambulations made for the severing of the new forests from the old. The owner of freelands in the purlieu to the yearly value of forty shillings was known as a purlieu-man or purley-man. There seems no doubt that purlieu or purley represents the Anglo-French pural, puralee (0. Fr. pouraler, puraler, to go through Latin perambulare), a legal term meaning properly a perambulation to determine the boundaries of a manor, parish, &c. For example, Dibden Purlieu in Hampshire, on the border of the New Forest.
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(n.)
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.
  

(n.)
Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
  

Synonyms and related words:
agora, amphitheater, arena, athletic field, auditorium, background, baths, bear garden, boundary, bounds, bowl, boxing ring, bull ring, campus, canvas, casino, circus, club, clubhouse, cockpit, coliseum, colosseum, compass, confines, course, field, floor, forum, gambling house, gathering place, ground, gym, gymnasium, hall, hangout, haunt, health resort, hippodrome, limits, lists, locale, marketplace, mat, meeting place, milieu, open forum, outskirts, palaestra, parade ground, pit, place, platform, precinct, precincts, prize ring, public square, rallying point, range, rendezvous, resort, ring, scene, scene of action, scenery, setting, site, spa, sphere, springs, squared circle, stadium, stage, stage set, stage setting, stamping ground, suburbs, terrain, theater, tilting ground, tiltyard, walk, watering place, wrestling ring
  

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