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fauxbourg

fauxbourg is the obsolete form of faubourg.

Meaning of faubourg

Noun

faubourg (plural faubourgs)

  1. 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.1896, Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Oxford University Press, published 1996, page 233

Forms of fauxbourg

pluralfauxbourgs

Questions about fauxbourg

What is fauxbourg the obsolete form of?
Fauxbourg is the obsolete form of faubourg.

Words near fauxbourg in the dictionary

  1. faux queens
  2. faux-hawk
  3. faux-hawks
  4. fauxbourdon
  5. fauxbourdons
  6. fauxbourg
  7. fauxbourgs
  8. fauxcellarm
  9. fauxcellarms
  10. fauxcest
  11. Fauxes

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