purlieus

  • 121purlieu — n 1. outskirts, outposts; perimeter, periphery, fringe; limits, city limits, outer limits; suburbs, outlying districts. 2. purlieus environs, environment, surroundings, milieu; vicinity, vicinage, neighborhood, Inf. neck of the woods, Inf. part… …

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  • 122site — n position, placement, arrangement, placing, disposition; place, location, locality, locale, whereabouts, setting, milieu, scene; environment, surroundings, purlieus; neighborhood, vicinity, environs, precincts; territory, district, area, region …

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  • 123vicinity — n 1. neighborhood, vicinage, purlieus, nearby area or region, Inf. neck of the woods; precincts, setting, scene; environs, Fr. banlieue, Fr. alen tours. surroundings, cirumjacencies, outskirts, suburbs, faubourg, periphery. 2. proximity,… …

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  • 124whereabouts — n vicinity, vicinage, environs, purlieus, neighborhood, area; location, site, place, position, situation, locale, locality; spot, point, latitude and longitude …

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  • 125purlieu — pur•lieu [[t]ˈpɜr lu, ˈpɜrl yu[/t]] n. pl. lieus 1) purlieus environs or neighborhood 2) a place frequented by a person; haunt 3) an outlying district of a town or city 4) a piece of land on the edge of a forest, orig. land once part of a royal… …

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  • 126bound — [adj] obligated; destined apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made,… …

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  • 127bounds — bound [adj] obligated; destined apprenticed, articled, bent, bounden, certain, coerced, compelled, constrained, contracted, doomed, driven, duty bound, enslaved, fated, firm, forced, having no alternative, impelled, indentured, intent, made,… …

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  • 128boundary — [n] outer limit abuttals, ambit, barrier, beginning, border, borderland, borderline, bounds, brink, circumference, circumscription, compass, confines, edge, end, environs, extent, extremity, frame, fringe, frontier, hem, horizon, limits, line,… …

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