What's the difference between faubourg and suburb?

Faubourg


Definition:

  • (n.) A suburb of French city; also, a district now within a city, but formerly without its walls.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) • 170 rue Du Faubourg Saint Denis, +33 1 40 05 01 01, saravanabhavan.com .
  • (2) • 47 rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis, +33 1 47 70 30 89, chezjeannette.com .
  • (3) The Faubourg Lafitte area in Tremé is part of one of the most historic districts in New Orleans and Louisiana and America,” he said.
  • (4) The canal will be emptied from the first lock at Place de la Bataille-de-Stalingrad and the eighth lock at rue du Faubourg du Temple.
  • (5) On the Rue Faubourg St-Honoré, two days later, I met my three fellow passengers for the return trip and we watched in shocked delight as a sparkling grey Jaguar glided onto the kerb, producing from the driver’s side a tall and immaculate Dutchman, ready to drive us home to Hammersmith at the insistence of his son, who presumably approves of BlaBlaCar’s ecological merits.
  • (6) Firefighters were called at 2.40am on Thursday to the ground-floor offices on the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honore, in central Paris.
  • (7) At Marine Le Pen’s modest campaign headquarters in one of the most upmarket streets of Paris – Rue du Faubourg St-Honoré – something is missing, and it’s not just the symbolic Joan of Arc statue or giant papier-mache cockerel that grace the Front National’s permanent offices a few miles away.
  • (8) "Paris has the history, you know," he says, recounting his posting at the palatial Hotel de Charost in the Rue du Faubourg Saint-Honoré.
  • (9) The streets east of the station are home to Paris’s Indian community, where you’ll find countless sari boutiques and food shops (which also sell British favourites such as PG Tips and Horlicks), while to the south the once predominantly Turkish and north African enclave on the rue du Faubourg Saint-Denis is now chequered with Brooklyn-inspired bars, gourmet hotdog and burger joints, and sleek new coffee shops.
  • (10) • 72 rue du Faubourg Poissonnière, +33 1 42 46 30 53, ratapoildufaubourg.com .
  • (11) Open Mon-Fri 8am-midnight Chez Jeanette This freshly restored 1940s-era diner on the Faubourg Saint-Denis is the real deal, combining the best of the authentic Parisian character with a decidedly Bourgeois Bohemian (BoBo) crowd who pack in after work for a pre-dinner beer.
  • (12) Ratapoil du Faubourg, 10th arrondissement Facebook Twitter Pinterest The streets off rue Lafayette in the smart 10th arrondissement form Paris’s top restaurant hub, with regular openings and a buzzy feel.
  • (13) Chartier opened in Paris in 1896 and hundreds continue to pass through the Rue du Faubourg-Montmarte restaurant every hour.

Suburb


Definition:

  • (n.) An outlying part of a city or town; a smaller place immediately adjacent to a city; in the plural, the region which is on the confines of any city or large town; as, a house stands in the suburbs; a garden situated in the suburbs of Paris.
  • (n.) Hence, the confines; the outer part; the environment.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) "I was eight in 1983, but I remember a plane that flew low over our Bulawayo suburb and army loud-hailers screaming: 'You are surrounded.'
  • (2) Over the years the farm dams filled less frequently while the suburbs crept further into the countryside, their swimming pools oblivious to the great drying.
  • (3) Whether out of fear, indifference or a sense of impotence, the general population has learned to turn away, like commuters speeding by on the freeways to the suburbs, unseeingly passing over the squalor.
  • (4) His office - with a floor-to-ceiling glass wall offering views over a Bradford suburb and distant moors - is devoid of knick-knacks or memorabilia.
  • (5) The early evening clashes brought a dramatic end to a day that had started off with three large funeral rallies through the suburbs of Manama.
  • (6) These units are situated in suburbs with a high population density.
  • (7) A prospective study of notified cases of tuberculosis started on treatment during 1984 in the department of Seine-Saint-Denis situated in the northern suburb of Paris was undertaken with the help of the Ministry of Health, and the National Committee for the Prevention of Tuberculosis.
  • (8) Last night, the trouble spread to the mainly Asian suburb of Manningham, an area of sprawling and deprived terraced housing estates.
  • (9) An investigation of maintenance, usage, and coliform status of water in 104 domestic swimming pools in 13 Brisbane suburbs was made in January, 1978.
  • (10) You can argue about what constitutes a race “riot” these days – and why the hell we are seeing teargas every other evening in the suburbs, or Jim Crow-reminiscent police dogs in the year 2014.
  • (11) Its incidence, in our environment, has greatly increased during the last years being endemic in many large cities and their surrounding suburbs.
  • (12) The 1,127 killed at Rana Plaza in the Dhaka suburb of Savar are among at least 1,800 Bangladesh garment-industry workers killed in fires or building collapses since 2005.
  • (13) Cape Town was conceived with a white-only centre, surrounded by contained settlements for the black and coloured labour forces to the east, each hemmed in by highways and rail lines, rivers and valleys, and separated from the affluent white suburbs by protective buffer zones of scrubland,” he says.
  • (14) The 14 mothers living in the low-density suburbs of Milton Park, Queensdale, Avondale, and Borrowdale had a higher socioeconomic status and a higher educational status than the other mothers.
  • (15) Pamela is grateful for the family's financial security, aware that she and David have come a long way together since they met more than 20 years ago at the Winnock Hotel disco in Drymen, just outside the well-heeled Bearsden suburb of Glasgow.
  • (16) Yet the Attorney General seems to have delayed the announcement of this decision despite knowing the conclusions.” Protests erupted on the streets of Ferguson, a small northern suburb of St Louis, after Brown’s death in August.
  • (17) I talked to an elderly woman who had travelled from a suburb more than 30km away to show her support.
  • (18) Inshira’h lives in a village outside Kassala town, in the suburb of Fidiaeb.
  • (19) His body was found on the pavement of Portman Avenue, in East Sheen, an affluent west London suburb, shortly before 7.45am on 9 September last year, just after flight BA76 from Luanda, the Angolan capital, passed overhead.
  • (20) But as developing the sprawling suburbs has been the guiding planning principle for decades, there is little expertise in neither the public nor the private sector to all of a sudden begin building urban neighbourhoods.

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