Purlieu

\PUR-loo; PURL-yoo\ means outskirts; a term used of the outlying parts of a place or district.

1. purlieus, environs, neighborhood
2. a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds
3. a person's haunt or resort
4. a piece of land on the edge of the forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership
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