bourgade

== French == === Etymology === Borrowed from Old Occitan borgada, from borc (“settlement, town”) +‎ -ada. By surface analysis, bourg +‎ -ade. Compare Italian borgata. === Pronunciation === IPA(key): /buʁ.ɡad/ === 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: === Further reading === “bourgade”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012