burgher

Example Sentences

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Corsi is a long-married suburban burgher who lives in a McMansion in New Jersey.

From The New Yorker • Feb. 11, 2019

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

But the rich burgher who commissioned the work suddenly decides to combine it with a farcical musical comedy.

From Seattle Times • Aug. 6, 2012

Now we learned that the outrageous salaries of footballers began with a 19th-century burgher from Preston who apparently insisted on paying his players.

From The Guardian • Feb. 12, 2012

This Executor of Justice was associated with the Captain, but was usually a foreign Guelf burgher; later he developed into the Bargello, head of police and governor of the gaol.

From The Story of Florence by Gardner, Edmund G.