purlieu.
/pur-loo, purl-yoo/US // ˈpɜr lu, ˈpɜrl yu //UK // (ˈpɜːljuː) //
肃清,肃穆,肃静,肃杀
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n.noun · 名词
- 1.
- ›purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
- ›a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.
- ›a person's haunt or resort.
- ›an outlying district or region, as of a town or city.
- ›a piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws.
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Examples
The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.
Eye of mocker has not seen, nor foot of unbeliever trod this purlieu, the last to receive his blessing.
It is, in fact, a purlieu where the public-houses are overcrowded and the baths not places of great resort.
They evidently deemed that a legal purlieu was a better place for 'pickings.'
This favourite purlieu of London has larger books than mine devoted to its history.
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