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burgher

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burgher
1. a member of the trading or mercantile class of a medieval city
2. Archaic a citizen or inhabitant of a corporate town, esp on the Continent
3. South African History
a. a citizen of the Cape Colony or of one of the Transvaal and Free State republics
b. (as modifier): burgher troops


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This troop, the only defence of the prison, overawed by its firm attitude not only the disorderly riotous mass of the populace, but also the detachment of the burgher guard, which, being placed opposite the Buytenhof to support the soldiers in keeping order, gave to the rioters the example of seditious cries, shouting, --
The Black Tulip by Dumas, Alexandre View in context
Rostopchin's broadsheets, headed by woodcuts of a drink shop, a potman, and a Moscow burgher called Karpushka Chigirin, "who- having been a militiaman and having had rather too much at the pub- heard that Napoleon wished to come to Moscow, grew angry, abused the French in very bad language, came out of the drink shop, and, under the sign of the eagle, began to address the assembled people," were read and discussed, together with the latest of Vasili Lvovich Pushkin's bouts rimes.
War and Peace by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
The old knights were so proud of these names that if a burgher called them by their right ones they would correct them.
A Tramp Abroad by Twain, Mark View in context
 
 
 
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