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faubourg


Definition of faubourg

noun

[usually in place names]
  • a suburb, especially one in Paris:the Faubourg Saint-Germain

Origin:

French (earlier faux-bourg 'false borough'), perhaps an alteration of forsborc, literally 'outside the town', but perhaps based on Middle High German phâlburgere 'burghers of the pale', i.e. people living outside the city wall but still inside the palisade

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