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faubourg noun [ ˈfəʊbʊəɡ ]

• a suburb, especially one in Paris.
• "the Faubourg Saint-Germain"
Origin: 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.


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