banlieue
English
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Etymology
Borrowed from French banlieue.
Noun
banlieue (plural banlieues)
- The outskirts of a city, especially in France, inhabited chiefly by poor people living in tenement-style housing
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- 2007 November 4, Elisabeth Vincentelli, “You Are What Your Name Says You Are”, in New York Times[1]:
- But Guy Desplanques, a demographer, pointed out in 2002 that names like Ahmed and Jamila actually were on the wane, and that second-generation French men and women work toward integration by coming up with variations like Yanis or Rayan; the latter has become popular in some banlieues, evoking both the Maghreb and the relatively widespread Ryan.
See also
French
Etymology
From Old French banlieue, from Medieval Latin banleuca, bannileuga, from ban + lieue (“league, mile”). Compare Middle High German banmile, modern German Bannmeile.
Pronunciation
Noun
banlieue f (plural banlieues)
Further reading
banlieue on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
- “banlieue”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
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