burgher

Example Sentences

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Anthony would marry again, this time to a woman who was a Dutch burgher of impeccable standing.

From The Wall Street Journal • May 19, 2026

It’s not exactly Wall Street functionary — the dark shirts and abstract print ties speak to a different cinematographic stereotype — but it’s pretty close to prosperous burgher.

From New York Times • May 19, 2022

He recruited the famous woodcut artist Lucas Cranach, a friend and wealthy Wittenberg burgher, to improve the appearance of his works.

From Washington Post • Oct. 26, 2017

To friends and business associates, including struggling writers, he was frequently generous, more generous than unalloyed prudence or the burgher work ethic that he embodied might lead us to expect.

From The New Yorker • May 16, 2016

There was no local self-government, nothing in the way of municipal organization separate from the feudal r�gime, and no important burgher class as distinguished from the agricultural laborers.

From A Source Book of Medi?val History Documents Illustrative of European Life and Institutions from the German Invasions to the Renaissance by Ogg, Frederic Austin