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faubourg

[ foh-boor, -boorg; French foh-boor ]

noun

plural faubourgs
  1. a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.


faubourg

/ fobur; ˈfəʊbʊəɡ /

noun

  1. a suburb or quarter, esp of a French city
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of faubourg1

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 ڴǰī outside; foreign ) + borc city ≪ Germanic ( borough )
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51Թ History and Origins

Origin of faubourg1

C15: from French fauxbourg , perhaps a modification through folk etymology of Old French forsborc , from Latin foris outside + Old French borc burg
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Mrs. Wharton was perhaps too formal even for the faubourg.

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Morton was not as tolerant as Bernard’s generation, and like many of his upper-class contemporaries in the faubourg shunned former slaves as uncouth.

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Centuries-old tanneries along the Bièvre — the impoverished “faubourg of misery,” as it was called, but a community rich in history and pride — got the boot, too.

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As if one plague were not enough, the city is still alive in the distant faubourgs with revolts.

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In the month of January, 1831, Sister Catherine received the holy habit of a Daughter of Charity; and she was then sent to the hospital of Enghien in the faubourg Saint Antoine of Paris.

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