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
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
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
Hermandad, ėr-man-dad′, n. a confederation of the entire burgher class of Spain for police and judicial purposes, formed in 1282, and formally legalised in 1485.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 2 of 4: E-M) by Various
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