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Definition of purlieus noun from the Oxford Advanced American Dictionary

 

purlieus

 noun
noun
NAmE//ˈpərluz//
 
[plural] (literary)
 
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the area near or surrounding a place a fashionable residence in the purlieus of the capital
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