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  • noun Plural form of purlieu.

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Examples

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • The first real test is that of spending a long and arduous evening in the alehouses and outer purlieus of London, and here it has to be in the company of Dickens and nobody else.

    The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

  • The first real test is that of spending a long and arduous evening in the alehouses and outer purlieus of London, and here it has to be in the company of Dickens and nobody else.

    The Dark Side of Dickens 2010

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

  • Outside the cabin windows, Rehaek saw the densely clustered lights of central Ki Baratan slip behind as the airpod sped toward the purlieus of the city.

    Star Trek: Typhon Pact: Rough Beasts of Empire David R. George III 2011

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