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prettygoodwordpurlieu - n., the outlying district or region of a place (such as of a city); a person's common range or bounds.
Originally, a strip of land at the edge of a forest (including, but not limited to, a legal definition of piece of royal forest returned to its original owner). Dictionaries disagree on the details of its evolutionary etymology, but mostly agree that the odd spelling is what happens when you let Anglo-Normans modify puraler, to travel through (from pur-, through + aler, to go) to make it look like lieu, place.
---L.
Originally, a strip of land at the edge of a forest (including, but not limited to, a legal definition of piece of royal forest returned to its original owner). Dictionaries disagree on the details of its evolutionary etymology, but mostly agree that the odd spelling is what happens when you let Anglo-Normans modify puraler, to travel through (from pur-, through + aler, to go) to make it look like lieu, place.
---L.
