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faubourg
[< Cdn F < F]
Obs.
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
Spelling variants:fauxbourg
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n.
in Quebec, a community outside the original city limits; suburb.
Quotations
1785
Our driver pretended to know all the girls in the fauxbourgs and called to them to wake them with some of his impertinent talk as he went past.
1830
The 1st Bat. of Infantry will be composed of the Militia residing within the Fauxbourg Ste. Marie. . . .
1851
Near Kamouraska church and faubourg, the lower bay of this name also contains good flat land, and, with occasional interruptions, similar land stretches along the shore as we descend.