bourg
Americannoun
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a town.
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a French market town.
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
That bourg rose almost at the same time as La Palud.
From The Fortune of the Rougons by Vizetelly, Ernest Alfred
Mirebeau, though now an insignificant bourg, was formerly a place of some consequence.
From Béarn and the Pyrenees A Legendary Tour to the Country of Henri Quatre by Costello, Louisa Stuart
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 Costello, Louisa Stuart
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
Your Majesty knows how Huguenot bourgs are dealt with.
From The Chaplet of Pearls by Yonge, Charlotte Mary
It is necessary to carry your own pillows with you; in some inns they have them; but in villages, bourgs, &c. none are to be had.
From A Year's Journey through France and Part of Spain, Volume 2 by Thicknesse, Philip
Piriac, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.
From The Vicomte De Bragelonne by Dumas père, Alexandre
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 Cooper, James Fenimore
Pirial, the bourgs of Batz and Le Croisic, exactly resembling each other, attracted and suspended his attention.
From Ten Years Later by Dumas père, Alexandre
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