Purlieu /(?)/

Pur·lieu

Purlieu

n.
  1. Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.
    Then as a tiger, who by chance hath spied In some purlieu two gentle fawns at play.
  2. Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
    brokers had been incessantly plying for custom in the purlieus of the court.