burgher
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Banská Bystrica is a tranquil kind of place, with a genteel Mitteleuropa charm: the centre has pavement cafes, neat rows of burgher houses and a number of handsome baroque churches.
From The Guardian • Feb. 14, 2019
He recruited the famous woodcut artist Lucas Cranach, a friend and wealthy Wittenberg burgher, to improve the appearance of his works.
From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2017
“The nobleman tells us everything through the person he presents, but the burgher does not, and should not,” Goethe writes.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 1, 2016
But the rich burgher who commissioned the work suddenly decides to combine it with a farcical musical comedy.
From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2012
She was not quite a peasant—she and her brother owned their house, showing that they belonged to the stolid, sound, sheltered burgher class.
From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise
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