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burgess

[bur-jis] / ˈbɜr dʒɪs /


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Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess.

From Time Magazine Archive

Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles.

From Time Magazine Archive

It is too much that, in 1884, a duly-elected and properly-qualified burgess of Parliament should be shut outside by such votes.

From The True Story of my Parliamentary Struggle by Bradlaugh, Charles

Yet so rich of heart was this burgess that not poverty even might make him knot his purse.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

Presently he drew up at Mynheer Groetweld’s door, when the worthy burgess greeted him with ceremonious politeness and requested him to enter.

From Perils in the Transvaal and Zululand by Adams, H.C.




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