burgess

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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

I like the way he has hung those wooden-looking pictures of his burgess forbears in their furred cloaks and chains among the brocaded D'Urbans and De la Poles.

From Notwithstanding by Cholmondeley, Mary

Thereat the burgess began to smile, and made reply that he would learn the meaning of those words.

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

Why weep ye so, ye burgess wives,65 Why look ye so on me?

From English and Scottish Ballads (volume 3 of 8) by Various