Crossword-Solution: PURLIEU
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Purlieu | 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. |
| Purlieu | n. | Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood. |
We have 14 clues for the answer “PURLIEU”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Outlying part, as of a city. | 1 answer |
| Surrounding neighborhood | 1 answer |
| land on the edge of a royal forest | 1 answer |
| Outlying district | 2 answers |
| Regular haunt | 2 answers |
| Regular Hangout | 2 answers |
| Outlying Area | 4 answers |
| surrounding area | 8 answers |
| Hangout | 13 answers |
| purlieus | 17 answers |
| Environs | 29 answers |
| stamping ground | 29 answers |
| Confines | 49 answers |
| Haunt | 61 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with PURLIEU (5)
This commonplace purlieu was become the scene of a witch-chase; the moonlight fell upon the ghastly flitting face of the pursued, uplifted in agony, white, wet, with fay eyes; also it illumined the unreal elf following close, a breeze-blown fantasy in rags.
Then I fled her disdains and derisions To cities of pleasure, And made me the crony of idlers In every purlieu.
Why was this angry multitude gathering here within a few rods of rural loveliness, their hoarse cries blending with the songs of robins and thrushes? It had been expected that the red monster would raise its head, if at all, in some purlieu of the east side.
VII We were often crossing it on one errand or other, but now we were especially going to see the gipsy quarter of Seville, which disputes with that of Granada the infamy of the loathsomest purlieu imaginable.
Frognall Street proved to be one of those by-ways, a short block in length, which, hemmed in on all sides by a meaner purlieu, has (even in Bloomsbury!) escaped the sordid commercial eye of the keeper of furnished lodgings, retaining jealously something of the old-time dignity and reserve that were its pride in the days before Society swarmed upon Mayfair and Belgravia.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, NYT.
Used 5 times in crossword archives (1960–2010).