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purlieu
noun
1The area near or surrounding a place.
‘the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge’
1.1 A person's usual haunts.
2British historical A tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
‘they wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law’
September 10, 2017