PURLIEU


Meaning of PURLIEU in English

transcription, транскрипция: [ ˈpə:lju: ]

n. (pl. purlieus) 1 a person's bounds or limits. 2 a person's usual haunts. 3 Brit. hist. a tract on the border of a forest, esp. one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws. 4 (in pl.) the outskirts; an outlying region. [ME purlew, prob. alt. after F lieu place f. AF purale(e), OF pourallee a going round to settle the boundaries f. po(u)raler traverse]

English main colloquial, spoken dictionary.      Английский основной разговорный словарь.