bourg
a town.
a French market town.
Origin of 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 DaudetThe woman ran out into the bourg, calling loudly that the Count was slain.
Belgium | George W. T. (George William Thomson) OmondAt 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) OmondThe 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) OmondThe villagers bound and dragged him to the nearest guardhouse at bourg-la-Reine.
The Stones of Paris in History and Letters, Volume I (of 2) | Benjamin Ellis Martin
British Dictionary definitions for bourg
/ (bʊəɡ, French bur) /
a French market town, esp one beside a castle
Origin of bourg
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