faubourg
noun
a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
faubourgs
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pluralof faubourg.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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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
He is precisely the magistrate that suits the faubourgs when they resort to violent measures.
From Marie Antoinette and the Downfall of Royalty by Arthur Léon, baron Imbert de Saint-Amand
To these figures must be added for the faubourgs or beyond the gates 239 tenements of lesser importance.
From Bartholomew Sastrow Being the Memoirs of a German Burgomaster by Bartholomew Sastrow
