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
One column occupied the St. Cyprien Bridge, in order to separate the town from the faubourg, another proceeded to the prefecture, and the third, with Nansouty, Kératry, and the magistrates, marched on the Capitol.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
She might be white-haired and a great lady bearing an ancient title, from the faubourg across the bridges, but he heard only a voice.
From With the French in France and Salonika by Richard Harding Davis
As the prisoners from the faubourg are brought in, Henriette sees the loved and long lost face of her dreams among the front row of the sansculottes.
From Orphans of the Storm by Henry MacMahon
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
The faubourgs, always at their post, elected Delescluze in the nineteenth arrondissement and Ranvier, Millière, Lefrançais, and Flourens in the twentieth.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
The Girondins, finding the National Guard too conservative, demanded pikes for the men of the faubourgs who had no guns.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
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