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French
Etymology
Borrowed from Old Occitan borgada, from borc (“settlement, town”) + -ada. By surface analysis, bourg + -ade. Compare Italian borgata.
Pronunciation
Noun
bourgade f (plural bourgades)
- village
- 1837 Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Chapter I:
Dans une bourgade de la Manche, dont je ne veux pas me rappeler le nom, vivait, il n’y a pas longtemps, un hidalgo […]- In a village of La Mancha, whose name I do not want to remember, lived, not long ago, an hidalgo
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