faubourg
pronunciation
How to pronounce faubourg in British English:
UK ['fəʊbʊəg]
How to pronounce faubourg in American English:
US ['foʊˌbʊrg]
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- Noun:
- a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city
Word Origin
- faubourg (n.)
- "suburb," late 15c., from Middle French faux bourg, said by French authorities to be from Old French forsbourc (12c.) "suburbs, outskirts," literally "that which is outside the town," from fors "outside" (from Latin foris; see foreign) + bourc "town" (a word of Frankish origin cognate with English borough), and altered in Middle French by folk-etymology to faux bourg "false town" (suburbs were seen as inauthentic).
Example
- 1. Workmen assembled at the corner of the rue de bercy , waited for a certain lemarin , the revolutionary agent for the faubourg saint-marceau .
- 2. At the end of the fifteenth century , the faubourg strides across it , passes beyond it , and runs farther .
- 3. And it is just these highways , the rue st. denis , for instance , or the faubourg du temple .
- 4. For the last twenty years the station of the orleans railway has stood beside the old faubourg and distracted it , as it does to-day .
- 5. These districts include bywater , garden district and st charles avenue , the french quarter , faubourg marigny and the irish channel area .