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burgomaster

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


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The Queen's Commissioner arrived, Burgomaster Witschey said grace in Dutch, and dinner proceeded: three stout courses followed by brandy and a speech by the burgomaster.

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To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly.

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The burgomaster retorted that Father Wasmann's birth place was actually in Italian territory.

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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.

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“Know you that?” he inquired of his companion, the chief burgomaster of the city.

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