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

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   […]in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards[…]

   1919, Christopher Morley, “Aubrey Determines to Give Service that’s Different”, in The Haunted Bookshop, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, →OCLC, page 217

   By the time that I was quite clear of the city's unlovely faubourgs and purlieus I needed petrol: the Silver Ghost is a lovely car but its best friend would have to admit that its m.'s per g. are few.

   1973, Kyril Bonfiglioli, Don't Point That Thing at Me., Penguin, published 2001, page 81