Roubaisien
See also: roubaisien
French edit
Noun edit
Roubaisien m (plural Roubaisiens, feminine Roubaisienne)
- resident or native of Roubaix
- Hier, j’ai rencontré un Roubaisien à Bradford.
- Yesterday, I met a Roubaisian in Bradford.
- 1969, Richard Cobb, A second identity; essays on France and French history., →ISBN, page 27:
- The telephone book was full of names under Van; many Roubaisiens had brothers or parents over the border, while since 1905 the very pious wool barons had been in the habit of sending their daughters and their sons to schools run by French orders situated often less than a kilometre over the frontier.
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- (zootechnics) Pigeon breed from France (Roubaix), for fancy purposes
- 1984, American Pigeon Journal Company, American Pigeon Journal[1], page 58:
- As rare breed, I noted some Piacentinos: Roubaisiens.
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