burgess

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

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

From Time Magazine Archive

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

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

Yet so rich of heart was this burgess that not poverty even might make him knot his purse.

From Aucassin & Nicolette And Other Mediaeval Romances and Legends by Mason, Eugene

September 5, made burgess and guild-brother of Edinburgh.

From Benjamin Franklin Representative selections, with introduction, bibliograpy, and notes by Jorgenson, Chester E.