bourg
noun
a town.
bourgs
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pluralof bourg.plural
The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.
Example Sentences
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A score or more of villages, or bourgs, before 1860, were between the limits of these two barriers, but were at that time united by the loi d’annexion, and so “Greater Paris” came into being.
From Dumas' Paris by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Pirial, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.
From Ten Years Later by Alexandre Dumas père
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
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
The Barony of Les Baux consisted of seventy-nine towns or bourgs, which formed the territory called La Baussenique.
From In Troubadour-Land A Ramble in Provence and Languedoc by S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould
