Obs. [a. OF. fauxbourg: see FAUBOURG.] A suburb.

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c. 1470.  Henry the Minstrel, Wallace, VIII. 527.

        On to the ȝettis and faboris off the toun
Braithly thai brynt, and brak thair byggyngis doun.

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1489.  K. Hen. VII., in Paston Lett. (1874), III. 357. Thei drewe down the fabours of Gyngham, and made theyme mete to defende a siege.

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