Definition of "faubourgs" [faubourgs]

• Plural form of faubourg. (noun)

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• "These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris, — all this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs."
• "These general symptoms which presented themselves at the moment when it was thought that the uprising had been rendered local, this fever of wrath, these sparks which flew hither and thither above those deep masses of combustibles which are called the faubourgs of Paris, -- all this, taken together, disturbed the military chiefs."
• "Are they not innocent victims, these children, who in the faubourgs slowly die of anaemia, because bread is rare at home?"