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
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
In the French faubourgs gaming was not considered so hideous a crime, and the houses appropriated to it were open and avowed.
From The Quadroon Adventures in the Far West by Mayne Reid
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
