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plural faubourgs
An outlying part of a city or town, beyond the walls; a suburb, especially of Paris, New Orleans, Montreal, or Quebec City. quotations examples
[…] in the course of his walk (which led him out toward the faubourgs of Flatbush) he passed long vistas of signboards […]
1919, Christopher Morley, The Haunted Bookshop, New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap Publishers, 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