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

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

Thus quiet joy and hopeful happiness prevailed throughout the good burgher house in Langensalza.

From For Sceptre and Crown, Vol. II (of II) A Romance of the Present Time by Meding, Johann Ferdinand Martin Oskar