faubourg Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. noun a New Orleans district lying outside the original city limits; used in combination with the names of various quarters of the city
    • in Faubourg Sainte-Marie

WordNet


Fau`bourg" noun
Etymology
F.
Definitions
  1. A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

Webster 1913