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burgomaster

[bur-guh-mas-ter, -mah-ster] / ˈbɜr gəˌmæs tər, -ˌmɑ stər /


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To Mayor James J. Walker of New York City, as to many another metropolitan burgomaster, hotel owners have recently complained most bitterly.

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So. too. it seemed last week when, on the Vienna model, a new burgomaster and four vice burgomasters were appointed for Sofia by government decree.

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Henry Siegel arrived in the U. S. in 1867, aged 15, the eighth of the ten sons of the burgomaster of Eubigheim, Germany.

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Says Willi Kaiser, the burgomaster of Bedburg, which includes the village of Kaster: "In the end people are usually satisfied."

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His father was one of the leading citizens of Holland, both in politics and in the patronage of letters, and for some time burgomaster of Amsterdam.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 13, Slice 6 "Home, Daniel" to "Hortensius, Quintus" by Various