noun, feminine/buʁ.ɡad/plural: bourgades
village
“Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo […]” — In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo […]
Borrowed from Old Occitan borgada, from borc (“settlement, town”) + -ada. By surface analysis, bourg + -ade. Compare Italian borgata.