burgher

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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

To friends and business associates, including struggling writers, he was frequently generous, more generous than unalloyed prudence or the burgher work ethic that he embodied might lead us to expect.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 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

In Season 2 of the Swedish series, by comparison, Mr. Henriksson’s Wallander is a crotchety but not entirely unhappy burgher, newly ensconced in a tidy house with a view of the sea.

From New York Times • May 27, 2012

On two or three occasions the burgher guard saluted him as he passed; and in one place, where several people were collected together, there was a cry of "Long live the Duke of Guise!"

From Henry of Guise; (Vol. II of 3) or, The States of Blois by James, G. P. R. (George Payne Rainsford)