burgher
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Anthony would marry again, this time to a woman who was a Dutch burgher of impeccable standing.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026
Corsi is a long-married suburban burgher who lives in a McMansion in New Jersey.
From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 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
Now we learned that the outrageous salaries of footballers began with a 19th-century burgher from Preston who apparently insisted on paying his players.
From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 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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