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Environs vs Purlieu - What's the difference?

environs | purlieu |

As nouns the difference between environs and purlieu

is that environs is the surroundings; the environment while purlieu is (historical) the ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.

As a verb environs

is (environ).

environs

English

Noun

(en-plural noun)
  • The surroundings; the environment.

    • Verb

    (head)
  • (environ)
    • ----

    purlieu

    English

    Noun

    (en-noun)
  • (historical) The ground on the edges of a forest, especially when partly subject to the same forest laws concerning game hunting etc.
  • The outskirts of any place; an adjacent district; the environs or neighborhood.
  • *1886 , , The Princess Casamassima .
  • *:He seemed to wish to keep hold of him, and looked at him strangely, over his spectacles... when he learned that Hyacinth had taken a lodging not in their old familiar quarter but in the unexplored purlieus of Westminster.