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
The moon shone with uncommon brilliancy, and thousands, even in this lower faubourg, were abroad, enjoying the beauty and richness of the scene.
From The South-West By a Yankee. In Two Volumes. Volume 1 by Joseph Holt Ingraham
At seven o'clock the presence of soldiers at the top of the faubourg was announced.
From History of the Commune of 1871 by P. Lissagary
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
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
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
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
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 Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
Men from the faubourgs were marching past armed with guns and old swords, some of them wearing red caps, and all singing the "Marseillaise" or the "Girondins."
From Sentimental Education, Volume II The History of a Young Man by Gustave Flaubert
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