burgomaster
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.
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On the Carters' trip to Germany, Rosalynn delighted the burgomaster of Linz by grabbing his arms and rushing him into a polka-like Schunkeltanz in the street.
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Bulganin was an Old Bolshevik whose long years of managing Soviet agencies without ever saying a flat yes or no had only enhanced his ability to look, dress and propose toasts like a Belgian burgomaster.
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"Oh, Gerard! who think you, hath sent to our house seeking you?—the burgomaster himself."
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
