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burgher

[ bur-ger ]

Phonetic (Standard)IPA

noun

burgher

/ ˈbɜːɡə /

a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city
a respectable citizen; bourgeois
archaic.
a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent
history
1. a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics
2. ( as modifier )
  burgher troops

Origin of burgher¹

1560–70; < Middle Dutch < Middle High German burger, equivalent to burg borough + -er -er ¹

Origin of burgher¹

C16: from German Bürger , or Dutch burger freeman of a borough

Charles IX., who afterwards became rather too fond of these invasions of burgher homes, supped with a good appetite.

The burgher races these are called, while on the third and last day are the officers' races.

But such things would not have shocked the masses of plain burgher Frenchmen at all.

Yet there was nothing ostentatious, or which seemed inconsistent with the degree of an opulent burgher.

In the first place, painting celebrated as its worthiest subject the free burgher, the tighter in the heroic struggle for freedom.

April 19, 2024tortuous

[tawr-choo-uhs ]

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