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burgomaster

[bur-guh-mas-ter, -mah-ster] / ˈbɜr gəˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər /


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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.

From Time Magazine Archive

In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.

From Time Magazine Archive

On the Carters' trip to Germany, Rosalynn delighted the burgomaster of Linz by grabbing his arms and rushing him into a polka-like Schunkeltanz in the street.

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When forty years of age he was made an alderman of Copenhagen, and in 1654 became its chief burgomaster.

From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.




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