<p><strong>Noun</strong></p><ul><li>Purlieus, environs or neighborhood.</li><li>A place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.</li><li>A person's haunt or resort.</li><li>An outlying district or region, as of a town or city.</li><li>A piece of land on the edge of a forest, originally land that, after having been included in a royal forest, was restored to private ownership, though still subject, in some respects, to the operation of the forest laws.</li></ul>