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faubourg fauxbourg [< Cdn F < F] Obs. 
n. in Quebec, a community outside the original city limits; suburb.
- 1785 (1943) Our driver pretended to know all the girls in the fauxbourgs and called to them to wake them with some of his impertinent talk as he went past.
- 1830 The 1st Bat. of Infantry will be composed of the Militia residing within the Fauxbourg Ste. Marie. . . .
- 1851 Near Kamouraska church and faubourg, the lower bay of this name also contains good flat land, and, with occasional interruptions, similar land stretches along the shore as we descend.
- 1785 (1943) Our driver pretended to know all the girls in the fauxbourgs and called to them to wake them with some of his impertinent talk as he went past.