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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