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burgomaster

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


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Last week it was learned that Brussels had given Belgium another heroic burgomaster.

From Time Magazine Archive

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.

From Time Magazine Archive

"I am Eduard Witschey, the burgomaster," he said.

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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.

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It needed unyielding strength and indomitable courage to carry out such an undertaking, but these were qualifications which the burgomaster possessed, and had at an early age learned to employ.

From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Bull, Jacob B.




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