purlieu
noun
[ ˈpəːljuː ]
• the area near or surrounding a place.
• "the photogenic purlieus of Cambridge"
• a tract on the border of a forest, especially one earlier included in it and still partly subject to forest laws.
• "they wished the purlieus to be completely free from the Forest law"
Origin:
late 15th century (denoting a tract on the border of a forest): probably an alteration (suggested by French lieu ‘place’) of Anglo-Norman French puralee ‘a going round to settle the boundaries’.
