noun
also ban·lieu bäⁿlyœ
( plural banlieues also banlieux “)
Etymology: French banlieue, from Old French, from ban summoning of the king's vassals, tribute, ban + lieue league, from Late Latin leuca — more at ban , league
: the outlying residential area of a city : environs — often used in plural
trainload after trainload of young men and women from the banlieue was disgorged into the capital — Max Beerbohm
from the location of all these puppet theaters in the banlieues of town it is evident that they were the resorts … of common people — Paul McPharlin