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purlieu
purlieu is a 7-letter English word with 3 senses as noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights. Face value is 9 in Scrabble and 13 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
7 letters · Scrabble 9 · Words With Friends 13 · 3 senses
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- 1noun
Originally, the ground near a royal forest, which, having been unlawfully added to the forest, was afterwards severed from it, and disafforested so as to remit to the former owners their rights.
- 2noun
Hence, the outer portion of any place; an adjacent district; environs; neighborhood.
- 3noun
an outer adjacent area of any place
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