D defs.my
Entry 1 sense Webster, 1913

Milieu

/(mē̇*lyẽ")/ · Mi·lieu · IPA /mɪlˈju/
01 n. Environment.
  1. 1.
    Environment.
    “The intellectual and moral milieu created by multitudes of self-centered, cultivated personalities.” — J. A. Symonds.
    “It is one of the great outstanding facts of his progressive relation to the elements of his social milieu.” — J. M. Baldwin.