purlieus 的定义
- 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.
purlieus 近义词
border
environment
environ
更多purlieus例句
- It would be too dismal for Gwynne to roam through the purlieus with a policeman—and he cannot come down often.
- But while he sneaked in the purlieus of the city several of his 'longshore friends passed him without a second look.
- And then Mr. Furnival strolled off to look for the attorney among the various purlieus frequented by the learned strangers.
- Is drink-money for your old age, when else you must starve or stab in the purlieus of Genoa, not worth one month's sobriety?
- Theology, straying from the enclosures of religion, enters the purlieus of philosophy, and in some cases exacts stiff definitions.