Jackie, I came across purlieus this morning in a book I am reading (The Balkan Trilogy by Olivia Manning):

Quote:
As he watched the skittish jig of its pelvis, a tear came into Yakimov's eyes, but he was not weeping for the horse. He was weeping for himself. He was retreating, most unwillingly from the heart of Bucharest life to its seedy, unprofitable purlieus.


After looking the word up my first thought was Hogwash! but then a search turned up this thread from 2008, thus dashing my hopes of successful porcine lavation.

Manning's book is great, by the way. I sort of stumbled across it. Anyone else here ever read Olivia Manning?