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Milieu vs Purlieu - What's the difference?

milieu | purlieu |

As nouns the difference between milieu and purlieu

is that milieu is medium 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.

milieu

English

Noun

(en-noun)
  • medium
  • A person's social setting or environment.

    • 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.