Bible Dictionaries
Purlieu
Webster's Dictionary
(1):
(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.
(2):
(n.) Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
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Webster, Noah. Entry for 'Purlieu'. Noah Webster's American Dictionary. https://www.studylight.org/dictionaries/eng/web/p/purlieu.html. 1828.