bourg

American  

[boorg, boor] / bʊərg, bur /

noun

• bourgs
  plural

1. a town.

2. a French market town.

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bourg British  

/ bʊəɡ, bur /

noun

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

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• bourgs
  plural

Etymology

Origin of bourg

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

Example Sentences

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bourg bourgs

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

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

Fontevrault is an enigma; it is, furthermore, what the French themselves call a "triste et maussade bourg."

From Castles and Chateaux of Old Touraine and the Loire Country by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield

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

On approaching the long, desolate-looking bourg of Peyrehorade,—which, however, on market-days, is bustling and crowded enough—a ruin, on a height not unlike that of Orthez, looks proudly over the plain, where two Gaves unite.

From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Louisa Stuart Costello

In the inns of the largest bourgs, "closeness, misery, dirtiness and darkness."

From The Ancient Regime by John Durand

Piriac, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.

From The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Alexandre Dumas père

At last they came to the muster of the clean-run limber lads of Kelton, artificers mostly, and stated retainers of the castle and its various adjacent bourgs of Carlinwark, Rhonehouse, Gelston, and Mains of Thrieve.

From The Black Douglas by Frank Richards

Scarce an isolated dwelling was to be seen, but the dense population is compressed into villages and bourgs, that dot the view, looking brown and teeming, like the nests of wasps.

From Recollections of Europe by James Fenimore Cooper

This reservoir in each department or district is the Jacobin nursery of the principal town; from this, they are sent into the bourgs and communes of the conscription.

From The French Revolution - Volume 3 by John Durand