Roubaix
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Roubaix
- A city in Hauts-de-France, France.
- An unincorporated community in Lawrence County, South Dakota, United States.
- 1970, Lewis H. Shapiro and John Paul Cries, Ore Deposits in Rocks of Paleozoic and Tertiary Age of the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Numbered Series 70-300, page 27
- The basal conglomerate of the Deadwood formation occurs as numerous lenticular beds irregularly distributed along a belt about two miles wide extending from the vicinity of Roubaix to Blacktail Gulch.
- 1970, Lewis H. Shapiro and John Paul Cries, Ore Deposits in Rocks of Paleozoic and Tertiary Age of the Northern Black Hills, South Dakota, U.S. Geological Survey Numbered Series 70-300, page 27
Translations
city in Hauts-de-France
French
Etymology
Probably of Frankish origin, from *rausa (“reed”) + *baki (“brook”), from Proto-Germanic *rauzą + *bakiz. For the first element see roseau (“reed”).
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Roubaix ?
- A city in the Nord department, France
- 1989, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Collected works: Marx and Engels, 1874-83, →ISBN, page 394
Volume 24 of the Collected Works of Karl Marx and Frederick Engels. New York, International Publishers
Extract from article “Two Model Town Councils” written by Frederick Engels, originally published in The Labour Standard No. 8 on June 25, 1881- Shortly before the establishment of the Labour Standard, there was a strike of factory operatives in the town of Roubaix, close on the Belgian frontier.
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- 1989, Karl Marx, Friedrich Engels, Collected works: Marx and Engels, 1874-83, →ISBN, page 394
- Patronymic name affixed with “de”, given after the city's name: Roubaix
- 1929, Norman Giles, Keerboskloof: A Novel, OCLC 9736252, page 9
- Groenvlei was a fine old plaas, with curling gables and brown thatched roof. The de Roubaix family had occupied it for many scores years.
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- 1929, Norman Giles, Keerboskloof: A Novel, OCLC 9736252, page 9
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References
- Guinet, Louis (1982). Les emprunts gallo-romans au germanique (du Ier à la fin du Ve siècle) . Bibliothèque française et romane. Série A, Manuels et études linguistiques ; 44 (in French). Paris, F: Klincksieck. pp. 32–33