faubourg

suburb

From Old French fors bourg (“settlement outside the ramparts”), from Old French fors (“outside”) + bourg (“town”). Alternatively it may be from faux-bourg ("false borough") which isn't attested until the 15th century (later than fors bourg) but is found in 1380 in Latin as falsus burgus. Possibly a corruption of Middle High German phâlburgere (“burghers of the pale”) (also spelt falborgere) as in a person living outside the city walls but inside the palisades. An 18th century French translation