Burckhardt
Americannoun
noun
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The Renaissance, Jacob Burckhardt once wrote, was a golden age for bastards.
From The Wall Street Journal • Dec. 23, 2025
An avid social dancer, Katz invited Burckhardt to the Palladium Ballroom in New York, home of the mambo, and Burckhardt brought Denby, who didn’t dance but asked Katz questions about the dancing.
From New York Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Butterly lives and works in an apartment in New York’s East Village, which she shares with her husband, the painter Tom Burckhardt.
From Washington Post • Jun. 5, 2019
Mr. Adler just handed over the records and digitized files to his audio engineer, Jacob Burckhardt, who edits some tracks, improves their sound quality and sequences them in seamless fashion.
From New York Times • Dec. 1, 2016
Burnet's suspicion that this was the expedition organised by the Turks and Halil's tribe jointly was confirmed; he wondered where Major Burckhardt was.
From Carry On! A Story of the Fight for Bagdad by Strang, Herbert
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