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purlieu
(mass) | purlieu
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purlieu
(encz) | purlieu,sousedství n: Zdeněk Brož |
Purlieu
(gcide) | Purlieu \Pur"lieu\, n. [Corrupted (by influence of lieu place)
fr. OF. pural['e]e, poral['e]e (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a
survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L.
pro, confused, however, with L. per through) + al['e]e. See
Pro-, and Alley.] [Written also pourlieu.]
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.
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Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied
In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play. --Milton.
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2. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent
district; environs; neighborhood. "The purlieus of St.
James."
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brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in
the purlieus of the court. --Macaulay.
[1913 Webster] Purlin |
purlieu
(wn) | purlieu
n 1: an outer adjacent area of any place [syn: environs,
purlieu] |
PURLIEU
(bouvier) | PURLIEU, Eng. law. A space of land near a forest, known by certain
boundaries, which was formerly part of a forest, but which has been
separated from it.
2. The history of purlieus is this. Henry III., on taking possession of
the throne, manifested so great a taste for forests that he enlarged the old
ones wherever he could, and by this means enclosed many estates, which had
no outlet to the public roads, and things increased in this way until the
reign of King John, when the public reclamations were so great that much of
this land was disforested; that is, no longer had the privileges of the
forests, and the land thus separated bore the name of purlieu.
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purlieu
(mass) | purlieu
- susedstvo |
purlieu
(encz) | purlieu,sousedství n: Zdeněk Brož |
purlieu
(wn) | purlieu
n 1: an outer adjacent area of any place [syn: environs,
purlieu] |
PURLIEU
(bouvier) | PURLIEU, Eng. law. A space of land near a forest, known by certain
boundaries, which was formerly part of a forest, but which has been
separated from it.
2. The history of purlieus is this. Henry III., on taking possession of
the throne, manifested so great a taste for forests that he enlarged the old
ones wherever he could, and by this means enclosed many estates, which had
no outlet to the public roads, and things increased in this way until the
reign of King John, when the public reclamations were so great that much of
this land was disforested; that is, no longer had the privileges of the
forests, and the land thus separated bore the name of purlieu.
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