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

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

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

She was not quite a peasant—she and her brother owned their house, showing that they belonged to the stolid, sound, sheltered burgher class.

From Memoirs of an American Prima Donna by Kellogg, Clara Louise