burgomaster
Example Sentences
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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.
From Time Magazine Archive
The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.
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The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.
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Where might the burgomaster of Meerane be bound, all resplendent in his uniform of office, at this grey hour of a nipping winter's day?
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"No! no!" said the burgomaster; "it is nearer home, and nobody is dead or dying, old friend."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade
