burgher

Example Sentences

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It’s not exactly Wall Street functionary — the dark shirts and abstract print ties speak to a different cinematographic stereotype — but it’s pretty close to prosperous burgher.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

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

In those days it was a busy thoroughfare, thick set with burgher houses; now, in such broken lengths of it as survive, the buildings are almost wholly Collegiate.

From Highways and Byways in Cambridge and Ely by Conybeare, Edward