purlieus

  • 11purlieus — n neighbourhood, surroundings, vicinity, suburbs, environs, precincts, periphery, borders, bounds, confines, limits, fringes, perimeter, outskirts …

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  • 12purlieus or purlieux — the area near or surrounding a place. → purlieu …

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  • 13Bedford Purlieus NNR — Bedford Purlieus is managed as a National Nature Reserve [ [http://www.english nature.org.uk/special/nnr/nnr details.asp?nnr name= C=5 Habitat=0 natural area= local team=0 spotlight reserve=0 X= NNR ID=251 Bedford Purlieus NNR] Natural England… …

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  • 14purlieu —  , purlieus  The first denotes bounds or limits; the second denotes outlying areas or environs …

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  • 15Royal forest — A royal forest is an area of land with different meanings in England, Wales and Scotland; the term forest does not mean forest as it is understood today, as an area of densely wooded land. There are also differing and contextual interpretations… …

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  • 16pourlieu — Purlieu Pur lieu, n. [Corrupted (by influence of lieu place) fr. OF. pural[ e]e, poral[ e]e (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. per through) + al[ e]e. See {Pro …

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  • 17Purlieu — Pur lieu, n. [Corrupted (by influence of lieu place) fr. OF. pural[ e]e, poral[ e]e (equiv. to LL. perambulatio a survey of boundaries, originally, a going through); por (L. pro, confused, however, with L. per through) + al[ e]e. See {Pro }, and… …

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  • 18Peterborough — This article is about the city in the United Kingdom. For other uses, see Peterborough (disambiguation). Peterborough   City and unitary authority   …

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  • 19List of Nature Conservation Review sites — The following is a list of sites listed in Derek Ratcliffe s 1979 book A Nature Conservation Review . The headings, subheadings, site codes and site names are the same as those used in the original work.Coastlandsoutheast Englandouth west… …

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  • 20Nearness — (Roget s Thesaurus) < N PARAG:Nearness >N GRP: N 1 Sgm: N 1 nearness nearness &c. >Adj. Sgm: N 1 proximity proximity propinquity Sgm: N 1 vicinity vicinity vicinage Sgm: N 1 neighborhood neighborhood adjacency …

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