bourg

[ boorg; French boor ]

noun,plural bourgs [boorgz; French boor]. /bʊərgz; French bur/.
  1. a town.

  2. a French market town.

Origin of bourg

1
1400–50; late Middle English <Anglo-French ≪ Late Latin burgus<Germanic; see borough

Words Nearby bourg

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How to use bourg in a sentence

  • My father used to sell old nails at the corner of a boundary stone in the bourg-Saint-Andeol.

    The Nabob | Alphonse Daudet
  • The woman ran out into the bourg, calling loudly that the Count was slain.

    Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
  • At break of day next morning a cold, heavy mist hung low over Bruges, and in the bourg everything was shrouded in darkness.

    Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
  • The bourg is empty and dark, steeped in black shadows at the door of the chapel where the relic has been laid to rest.

    Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) Omond
  • The villagers bound and dragged him to the nearest guardhouse at bourg-la-Reine.

British Dictionary definitions for bourg

bourg

/ (bʊəɡ, French bur) /


noun
  1. a French market town, esp one beside a castle

Origin of bourg

1
C15: French, from Old French borc, from Late Latin burgus castle, of Germanic origin; see borough

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