purlieu

Today's Word February 27, 2019

Definition: (noun) An outer adjacent area of any place.
Synonyms: environs.
Usage: These skulking visitors would keep about the purlieus of the camp until daylight; when, on the first stir of life among the sleepers, they would scamper off until they reached some rising ground.
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