faubourg
Americannoun
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faubourgs
plural
noun
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Etymology
Origin of faubourg
1425–75; late Middle English faubourgh < Middle French fau ( x ) bourg, alteration, by association with faux false, of Old French forsborc, equivalent to fors- outside of (< Latin forīs outside; cf. foreign) + borc city ≪ Germanic ( see borough)
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Mrs. Wharton was perhaps too formal even for the faubourg.
From The New Yorker ● Feb. 23, 1929
Germans in force held houses, parks and wooded sections in the faubourg.
From Time Magazine Archive
We enter the suburb of the workmen, the faubourg St Antoine, the former ally and reliance of the Jacobins.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 60, No. 372, October 1846 by Various
In the month of January, 1831, Sister Catherine received the holy habit of a Daughter of Charity; and she was then sent to the hospital of Enghien in the faubourg Saint Antoine of Paris.
From The Manifestation of the Miraculous Medal A Brief Account of Its History and of the Establishment of the Association by Anonymous
The majority of the young ladies are educated by the Ursulines at the convent, in the lower faubourg.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Ingraham, Joseph Holt
Two chic new faubourgs are centre stage – St Germain and St Honoré, where a new breed of financier built their hôtels particulier.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 29, 2011
Flea Market stalls now sell for as much as $50,000 each and are often manned by antique dealers from the fashionable faubourgs, St.-Germain and St.-Honore.
From Time Magazine Archive
Born in the old working-class quarter of Menilmontant, he was a kind of French cockney, with the innate wit, mocking manner, insouciance and unconcern for tomorrow of the poor Parisian from the faubourgs.
From Time Magazine Archive
What excited crowds fill the clubs, the Assembly, the Palais Royal, the gambling-houses, and the tumultuous faubourgs!
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Imbert de Saint-Amand, Arthur Léon, baron
During the whole day the faubourgs had armed and seized the munitions; the rampart pieces were remounted on their carriages; the mobiles, forgetting that they were prisoners of war, went to retake their arms.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by Lissagary, P.
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