Faubourg

Definition: Faubourg

Faubourg

Noun

1. A New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city: "in Faubourg Sainte Marie".

Date "faubourg" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Etymology: Faubourg \Fau`bourg"\, noun. [French expression]. (Websters 1913)

Crosswords: Faubourg

Specialty definitions using "faubourg": Dufarge. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Faubourg" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (suburb, suburbia).

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Modern Usage: Faubourg

Domain	Usage
Movie/TV Titles	Faubourg Montmartre (1931)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Commercial Usage: Faubourg

Domain	Title
Books	Du Faubourg Saint-Antoine au bois de Vincennes : promenade historique dans le 12e Arrondissement : mairie annexe du 12e Arrondissement, 26 janvier-20 février et 19 mars-20 avril 1983 : Musée Carnavalet, 26 avril-5 juin 1983 : exposition (reference) Le faubourg du Midan à Damas à l'époque ottomane : espace urbain, société et habitat (1742-1830) (reference) Du faubourg du Temple au faubourg Saint-Antoine : promenade historique dans le XIe arrondissement : Salle polyvalente de la Roquette, 14 fâevrier-31 mars 1985, Musâee Carnavalet, 2 juillet-28 septembre 1985 (reference) (more book examples)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Use in Literature: Faubourg

Title	Author	Quote
Les Miserables	Hugo, Victor	The Faubourg Saint Germain of the present smells of heresy.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

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Usage Frequency: Faubourg

"Faubourg" is generally used as a noun (proper) -- approximately 94.44% of the time. "Faubourg" is used about 18 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Noun (proper)	94.44%	17	85,106
Noun (singular)	5.56%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	18	N/A

Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.

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Expression: Faubourg

Hyphenated Usage
	Beginning with "faubourg": Faubourg-saint-denis.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Frequency of Internet Keywords: Faubourg

The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com.

Expression	Frequency per Day
hotel suite le faubourg	18
auberge du faubourg	7
faubourg	6
24 faubourg	5
faubourg marigny	5
sofitel le faubourg	5
les suite faubourg	4
du faubourg musique	4
faubourg le	4
faubourg hotel le montreal suite	3
du faubourg les voix	2
du faubourg la voix	2
faubourg hotel le	2
faubourg sofitel	2
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

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Modern Translations: Faubourg

Language		Translations for "faubourg"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		Periferi (commuter belt, environs, fringe, outskirts, periphery, suburb). (various references)

Czech		Předmìstí (outskirts, suburb). (various references)

Hungarian		korábbi külváros, külváros (outskirts, suburb, surrounding country). (various references)

Pig Latin		aubourgfay

Russian		Предместье. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		naselje van zidina grada. (various references)

Thai		ชานเมือง (burbs). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

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Derivations: Faubourg

Derivations
	Words beginning with "faubourg": faubourgs. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

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Anagrams: Faubourg

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-b-f-g-o-r-u-u"
	-3 letters: augur, bourg.
	-4 letters: barf, boar, bora, brag, bura, burg, faro, fora, forb, four, frag, frog, frug, fugu, garb, gaur, grab, grub, guar, guru, ruga.
	-5 letters: abo, ago, arb, arf, bag, bar, boa, bog, bra, bro, bug, bur, fag, far, fob, fog, for, fou, fro, fub, fug, fur, gab, gar, goa, gob, gor, oaf.
	Words containing the letters "a-b-f-g-o-r-u-u"
	+1 letter: faubourgs.
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