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
“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
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
When we reflect, then, on the large numbers who went to the universities, it adds to our surprise to realize that they were drawn from the burgher class.
From The Thirteenth Greatest of Centuries by James J. (James Joseph) Walsh
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