burgher

Example Sentences

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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

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 meant the undisputed hegemony of Holland in the federation, in other words of the burgher oligarchies who controlled the town corporations of the province, and especially of Amsterdam.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 5 "Hinduism" to "Home, Earls of" by Various