Roubaisian
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle French Roubaisien.
Pronunciation[edit]
Noun[edit]
Roubaisian (plural Roubaisians)
- A person who was born in, or is a citizen or inhabitant of Roubaix, France
- 1994, Patrick Richard Ireland, The Policy Challenge of Ethnic Diversity: Immigrant Politics in France and Switzerland, →ISBN, page 124:
- Even very large immigrant communities managed to integrate into the ranks of the Roubaignos (native Roubaisians) through their membership in the working class.
- 1967, Raymond Queneau translated by Barbara Wright, Between blue and blue: a sort of novel, OCLC 954865, page 27
- Sure enough, she is indeed Canadian and not by chance but by necessity seeing that she was born that way and isn't married to a foreigner (she doesn't state that she is a virgin) and hasn't had herself naturalised Roubaisian or Zanzibian.
Translations[edit]
Someone from Roubaix
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Adjective[edit]
Roubaisian (comparative more Roubaisian, superlative most Roubaisian)