Word of the day: purlieu

The word of the day is purlieu:

1. purlieus, environs or neighborhood.
2. a place where one may range at large; confines or bounds.
3. a person's haunt or resort.
4. an outlying district or region, as of a town or city.
5. 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.

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"Anthroplogy, he lamented, 'is particularly attractive to humankind, and for this reason the untrained are constantly venturing upon its purlieus; and since each heedless adventurer leads a rabble of followers, it behooves those who have at heart the good of science...to bell the blind leaders of the blind.'"

 - W. J. McGee, as quoted by Charles Mann in 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus