Faubourgとは 意味・読み方・使い方

語源

Borrowed from French faubourg.

発音

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

名詞

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.
   • 1896, Mark Twain, Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc, Oxford University Press, published 1996, page 233:

     At last a great shout went up ... and that was sign sufficient that the faubourgs were ours.

   • 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, published 2001, 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.