adjective
having or encouraging an excessive interest in sexual matters: she’d been the subject of much prurient curiosity.
[Tess Myers, in conversation, after we agreed we’d both used this word but had never actually looked it up]
Lexicon
n.
- Land added to a royal forest by unlawful encroachment, but afterward disafforested, and restored to the former owners, its bounds and extent being settled by perambulation.
- The borders or environs of any place; the outskirts; outlying places: as, the purlieus of Paris.
[The Waves — Virginia Woolf]