faubourg

Borrowed from French faubourg.

• IPA^(key): /ˈfəʊbʊəɡ/ (or as French, below)

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faubourg (plural faubourgs)

1. An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris.
   • 1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop‎, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, →OCLC, page 217:

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

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

     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.

From Old French fors bourg (“settlement outside the ramparts”)[1], from Old French fors (“outside”) + bourg (“town”).

• IPA^(key): /fo.buʁ/

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faubourg m (plural faubourgs)

1. suburb

• “faubourg”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.