noun
definition
The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
definition
The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
Examples of purlieu in a Sentence
Land which had thus been once forest land and was afterwards disafforested was known as purlieu - derived by Manwood from the French pur and lieu, i.e.
The forest laws still applied in a modified manner to the purlieu.
The benefit of the disafforestment existed only for the owner of the lands; as to all other persons the land was forest still, and the king's wild beasts were to "have free recourse therein and safe return to the forest, without any hurt or destruction other than by the owners of the lands in the purlieu where they shall be found, and that only to hunt and chase them back again towards the forest without any forestalling" (Manwood, On the Forest Laws - article "Purlieu") .