Definitions for faubourg

faubourg fau·bourg

Spelling: [foh-boo r, -boo rg; French foh- Faubourg is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 161 anagrams from letters in faubourg (abfgoruu).

Definitions for faubourg

noun

  1. a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.

Origin of faubourg

1425-75; late Middle English faubourgh Middle French fau(x)bourg, alteration, by association with faux false, of Old French forsborc, equi

Examples for faubourg

Was this a sign of approaching death, as the women of the faubourg said?

But the houses soon grew fewer, and they reached the end of the faubourg.

I wondered if my face would ever hang in the windows of the luxury flagship shops along the faubourg Saint-Honoré.

In a tavern of the faubourg he made the acquaintance of a basket-maker who worked at home.

I shame to speak it,—a fencing-master at an humble school of the faubourg.

Once the faubourg Saint-Germain was conquered, all the others would follow.

The deafening noises of the faubourg sounded like bells in their ears.

She led her husband by the noise, said the people of the faubourg of Plassans.

The inscription on the frieze, at the side of the faubourg, is the same repeated.

So they returned by the Boulevards and the faubourg du Poissonniers.

Word Value for faubourg
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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