They rise from the gardens where ancient tanks nourish them, they burst out of stifling purlieus and unconsidered temples.
E. M. Forster, A Passage to India
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Merriam-Webster
— an outlying or adjacent district
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Macmillan
— the outer areas of a place
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Collins
— neighbouring areas, outskirts
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Other Word Forms
purlieu
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1 use of ‘purlieus’ in A Passage to India, by E. M. Forster