Definitions for faubourgs

faubourgs fau·bourg

Spelling: [foh-boo r, -boo rg; French foh- Faubourgs is a 9 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 18 points.

You can make 301 anagrams from letters in faubourgs (abfgorsuu).

Definitions for faubourgs

noun

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

Origin of faubourgs

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

Examples for faubourgs

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

Word Value for faubourgs
Scrable

14

Words with friends

18

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