faubourg

faubourg

English

WOTD – 13 May 2011

Etymology

Borrowed from French faubourg.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/ (or as French, below)

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Noun

faubourg (plural faubourgs)

1. An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
   • 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop‎, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, OCLC 57198313, page 217:

     […] in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards […]

   • 1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me., Penguin, 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.

Translations

an outlying part of a city or town

Bulgarian: предградие (bg) n (predgradie) Finnish: esikaupunki (fi) French: Middle French: fauxbourg m, forsbourg m Old French: forsborc m Galician: arrabalde Polish: przedmieście (pl) n Russian: предме́стье (ru) n (predméstʹje), при́город (ru) m (prígorod) Spanish: extramuros

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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): /fo.buʁ/

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Noun

faubourg m (plural faubourgs)

1. suburb

References

1. bourg; in: Jacqueline Picoche, Jean-Claude Rolland, Dictionnaire étymologique du français, Paris 2009, Dictionnaires Le Robert, →ISBN

Further reading

• “faubourg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.