Faubourg
[FOH-boorg]
Part of speech: noun
Origin: French, 15th century
1.
(Usually in place names) A suburb, especially one in Paris.
Examples of Faubourg in a sentence
"The faubourgs of Paris were absorbed into the metropolis after the city walls expanded outward."
"Much like Paris, Montreal contains many faubourgs that used to be considered distant suburbs, until the city grew to encompass them."
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