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burgess

[bur-jis] / ˈbɜr dʒɪs /


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Since the conquerors felt they must stick together, it was possible for an ambitious young Norman lad, though only the son of a Cheapside burgess, to get a helping hand from Norman nobles.

From Time Magazine Archive

Bagpipes welcomed the Eisenhowers to Maybole, where the General was made a freeman and burgess.

From Time Magazine Archive

There he lived peacefully, and did homage to the king and became his liegeman and burgess.

From Tales from the Old French by Various

He apparently lived in Lancaster for awhile because he was a burgess from that county in 1652.

From The Stronghold A Story of Historic Northern Neck of Virginia and Its People by Miriam Haynie

He was given lodging in the house of a burgess full discreet and courteous, who gave up to his guest his own fair tapestried chamber.

From Tales from the Old French by Various




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