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Purlieus

n.

  1. 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.

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