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faubourg

/ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/

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Borrowed from French faubourg.

noun faubourgs

An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City. At last a great shout went up ... and that was sign sufficient that the faubourgs were ours.

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noun an outlying part of a city or town

Español	extramuros
Français	faubourg
Русский	предме́стье predméstʹje, при́город prígorod

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@misc{faubourg_2026,
  title = {faubourg},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/faubourg},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}