burgomaster
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The stereotype of the small-city mayor is a Babbittish burgomaster who divides his time between Rotary luncheons and Boy Scout wiener roasts.
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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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This was too much, even for the quisling burgomaster of Maastricht.
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The burgomaster, with relish rather than resolution, did so immediately.
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He went there to confront his fatal enemy the burgomaster, and, by means of that parchment, whose history by-the-by was itself a romance, to make him disgorge; and give Margaret her own.
From The Cloister and the Hearth A Tale of the Middle Ages by Reade, Charles
