faubourg
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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
But in the time of Abd-er-Rahmān III., or perhaps a little later, when a great minister added a new faubourg, it was at its best.
From The Moors in Spain by Lane-Poole, Stanley
Within the southernmost confines of the ch�teau is the Tour de Foix, so called for the old faubourg near by.
From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by Mansfield, M. F. (Milburg Francisco)
By wheedling the duchesses, she appeased the rancours of the aristocratic faubourg, and led the residents to believe that M. Dambreuse might yet repent and render them some services.
From Sentimental Education Vol 1 by Flaubert, Gustave
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