Get Free Checker

faubourg

NOUN
  1. 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

How To Use faubourg In A Sentence

  • Foreshadowing the events of the coming French Revolution, Sébastien wrote, ‘The people in this faubourg are meaner, more volatile, more quarrelsome and more ready to mutiny than in any of the other quarters [of Paris].’
  • He directed his course towards the faubourg Saint – Marceau and asked at the first shop he came to where he could find a commissary of police. Les Miserables
  • The Faubourg Saint-Germain may have its barriers also, but these are less ‘telling’ to the eyes and imagination of the ‘shabby-genteel.’ Within a Budding Grove
  • The pompous procession therefore wended its way towards P è re - la - Chaise from the Faubourg Saint - Honor é .
  • There had been a time when Chouteau, thanks to his facundity of the faubourg, had interested and almost convinced him, but now he had come to detest that apostle of falsehood, that snake in the grass, who calumniated honest effort of every kind in order to sicken others of it. The Downfall
  • Across the Seine, the whole of the ruined faubourg of St. Sever was under the command of John Holland, Earl of Huntingdon, whose business it was to guard the barbacan, or fortress at the south end of the bridge, and to keep up the English communications with the south of The Story of Rouen
  • So she played a game of make-believe in the rue du Faubourg Saint Honore. YELLOW BIRD
  • When the hour strikes, this man of the faubourgs will grow in stature; this little man will arise, and his gaze will be terrible, and his breath will become a tempest, and there will issue forth from that slender chest enough wind to disarrange the folds of the Alps. It is, thanks to the suburban man of Les Miserables
  • This man had the air of a person who is seeking lodgings, and he seemed to halt, by preference, at the most modest houses on that dilapidated border of the faubourg Saint – Marceau. Les Miserables
  • It was 1 a.m., and things were just getting started in the Faubourg Marigny neighborhood, downriver from the French Quarter. Jazzfest: Ellis Marsalis Brings the Monk - ArtsBeat Blog - NYTimes.com
View all