Word of the Day for Tuesday, May 3, 2011
purlieu \PUR-loo\, noun:
1. A place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.
2. A person's haunt or resort.
3. An outlying district or region, as of a town or city.
4. 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.
Of course the B.O. is taking credit for the elimination of OBL; I guess watching the kill at OBL's purlieu on live feed from the satellite now gives him battle creds, plus he got a paper cut from opening the operation's folder that the generals and admirals had drawn up, so now he will be awarded a Purple Heart as well!
--Spy Maker, JSA's Blog
"A purlieu is an area at the edge of a royal forest that used to be under forest law but isn't any more."-- Edward Rutherfurd, The Forest
"She thought of the strange operation of a simple-minded man's ruling passion, that it should have led Jude, who loved her and the children so tenderly, to place them here in this depressing purlieu."-- Thomas Hardy, Jude the Obscure: Volume 1896, Part 1
Purlieu is an alteration (simulating French lieu, "place") of earlier parlewe, "of a forest."
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