burgomaster

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Mozart's Haffner Symphony was first � Haffner because it was written to oblige a wealthy burgomaster, so named, of Salzburg.

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In 1914 Adolphe Max had been Brussels' burgomaster for five years when the Kaiser's armies clomped over the border.

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

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Mild-mannered Frank Zeidler behaves more like a conservative burgomaster than a doctrinaire Socialist.

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He had two straws in his hand, and he threw himself down by the fire, and relieved Margaret of the cooking part: then suddenly recognizing the burgomaster, he coloured all over.

From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles