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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

It was probably exhaustive, and may therefore be taken as indicating with tolerable precision the standard of household comfort of a London burgess at that time.

From Household Administration Its Place in the Higher Education of Women by Various

The burgess family’s one want being an aristocratic husband for their girl Violante, eagerly accepted the Count, and they got the marriage done.

From The Browning Cyclop?dia A Guide to the Study of the Works of Robert Browning by Edward Berdoe

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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