bourg
Americannoun
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bourgs
plural
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a town.
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a French market town.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of bourg
1400–50; late Middle English < Anglo-French ≪ Late Latin burgus < Germanic; see borough
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From the age of 33, when the Luxem bourg purchased his cityscape La Neige, Artist Henri's reputation vaulted, his tal ent ripened slowly, continuously.
From Time Magazine Archive
Donogoo tonka; ou, Les miracles de la science, suivi de Le bourg regenere, par Jules Romains, pseud. © 5Nov30; AF9958.
From U.S. Copyright Renewals, 1958 January - June by Library of Congress. Copyright Office
We passed thro' Firenzuola, a long well-built village, or rather bourg, and we brought to the night at Borgo San Donino.
From After Waterloo: Reminiscences of European Travel 1815-1819 by Major W. E Frye
At about 11 P. M., I reached a little bourg or village called Mont St. Vaudrey, and having first attended to my horse, was struck by a spectacle no traveller ever saw without delight.
From The Physiology of Taste by Fayette Robinson
In one "bourg" called S. Thomas, they baptized a boy five years old belonging to the Neutral Nation, who died immediately afterwards.
From The Country of the Neutrals (As Far As Comprised in the County of Elgin), From Champlain to Talbot by James H. Coyne
Maîche is a good specimen of the large, flourishing villages, or bourgs, found in these parts, and a greater contrast with those of Brittany cannot be conceived.
From Holidays in Eastern France by Matilda Betham-Edwards
It was of the Gothic of the bourgs, less elaborated and more rudely wrought than that of the larger towns, but quaint, and, the population considered, vast.
From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper
Descending to the valley, we followed its course toward the Rhone with the ruins of feudal "bourgs" crowning the crags above us.
From Seeing Europe with Famous Authors, Volume 3 France and the Netherlands, Part 1 by Francis W. (Francis Whiting) Halsey
In the inns of the largest bourgs, "closeness, misery, dirtiness and darkness."
From The Ancient Regime by John Durand
Descending to the valley, we followed its course towards the Rhone, with the ruins of feudal bourgs crowning the crags above us.
From Views a-foot by Bayard Taylor
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