Thursday, April 24, 2008

WORD OF THE DAY

faubourg

Today's word comes from page 192 of The Haunted Bookshop by Christopher Morley.

Its definition, from Webster's New World Third College Edition, is a noun meaning either a suburb or a city district that was at one time a suburb. It comes from the French term faux bourg, literally false town which comes from Old French forsbourc, literally outside town, hence suburb.

My sentence: He was raised in a housing development that is now a faubourg of Chicago.

Sentence anyone?

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