burgomaster

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Mr. Watts, by contrast, is wearing a three-piece suit with a six-button vest in what appears to be stolid burgomaster’s loden.

From New York Times

Mr. Lavaux is the village’s burgomaster, a position equivalent to mayor or chief magistrate.

From New York Times

A sign, and we were hurried from the burgomaster's presence, and, with a file of pikemen surrounding us, we were taken, not to that loathsome dungeon, but into the open air.

From Project Gutenberg

I raised my head and perceived the burgomaster's widow at the window of the room where the previous evening I had seen Annouchka.

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The magistrates invite the orchestra, and the burgomasters the singers.

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