burgher

Example Sentences

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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

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 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