Roubaisian

Roubaisian

English

Etymology

From Middle French Roubaisien.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbeɪzɪən/
• (US) IPA^(key): /ɹoʊˈbeɪʒən/

Noun

Roubaisian (plural Roubaisians)

1. A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Roubaix, France
   • 1994, Patrick Richard Ireland, The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland, →ISBN, page 124:

     Even very large immigrant communities managed to integrate into the ranks of the Roubaignos (native Roubaisians) through their membership in the working class.

   • 1967, Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright, Between blue and blue: a sort of novel, OCLC 954865, page 27

     Sure enough, she is indeed Canadian and not by chance but by necessity seeing that she was born that way and isn't married to a foreigner (she doesn't state that she is a virgin) and hasn't had herself naturalised Roubaisian or Zanzibian.

Translations

Someone from Roubaix

French: Roubaisien (fr) m, Roubaisienne (fr) f

German: Roubaiser (de) m, Roubaiserin f, Roubaixer m, Roubaixerin f

Adjective

Roubaisian (comparative more Roubaisian, superlative most Roubaisian)

1. Of, relating, or pertaining to Roubaix, France