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Word: Faubourg
Speech Type: Noun
Etymology:
French (earlier faux-bourg ‘false borough’), perhaps an alteration of forsborc, literally ‘outside the town’, but perhaps based on Middle High German phâlburgere ‘burghers of the pale’, i.e. people living outside the city wall but still inside the palisade
Audio Pronunciation:
Phonetic Spelling:
ˈfəʊbʊəɡ
Definition:
a suburb, especially one in Paris
Short Definition:suburb in Paris
Examples:- the Faubourg Saint-Germain
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