faubourg
English
WOTD – 13 May 2011
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/ (or as French, below)
Noun
faubourg (plural faubourgs)
- An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me. (Penguin 2001, page 81:
- By the time that I was quite clear of the city's unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.'s per g. are few.
- 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me. (Penguin 2001, page 81:
Translations
an outlying part of a city or town
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French
Etymology
From Old French fors bourg (“settlement outside the ramparts”)[1], from Old French fors (“outside”) + bourg (“town”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /fobuʁ/
References
- bourg; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, →ISBN
Further reading
- “faubourg” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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