faubourg
/ˈfəʊbʊəg/noun
usu. in place names
- a suburb, especially one in Paris(用于地名中, 尤指巴黎的)郊区:
the Faubourg Saint-Germain.
圣日耳曼郊区。
词源
French (earlier faux-bourg 'false borough'), perhaps an alteration of forsborc, literally 'outside the town', but perhaps based on Middle High German phâlburgere 'burgers of the pale', i.e. people living outside the city wall but still inside the palisade.