Meanings
plural Roubaisians
- A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Roubaix, France
Even very large immigrant communities managed to integrate into the ranks of the Roubaignos (native Roubaisians) through their membership in the working class.
1994, Patrick Richard Ireland, The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland, →ISBN, page 1241 more example
Sure enough, she is indeed Canadian and not by chance but by necessity seeing that she was born that way and isn't married to a foreigner (she doesn't state that she is a virgin) and hasn't had herself naturalised Roubaisian or Zanzibian.
1967, Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright, Between blue and blue: a sort of novel, OCLC 954865, page 27
comparative more Roubaisian · superlative most Roubaisian
Origin
- Middle FrenchRoubaisien
- EnglishRoubaisian
From Middle French Roubaisien.
More words from Middle French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
French Roubaisien, Roubaisienne
- RoubaisienSomeone from Roubaix
- RoubaisienneSomeone from Roubaix
German Roubaiser, Roubaiserin
- RoubaiserSomeone from Roubaix
- RoubaiserinSomeone from Roubaix
- RoubaixerSomeone from Roubaix
- RoubaixerinSomeone from Roubaix
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Roubaisian. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 4, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/Roubaisian
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