burgee
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of burgee
1840–50; perhaps shortening of *burgee's flag, by reanalysis of *burgess flag, burgess translating French bourgeois in sense “owner” (of a ship)
Example Sentences
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Bertarelli's catamaran, sailing under the burgee of the Societe Nautique de Geneve from landlocked Switzerland, is the width of two tennis courts and has a tilting mast that towers 17 storeys high.
From Reuters • Feb. 4, 2010
With a stickpin burgee of the Royal Yacht Squadron in his necktie and a briar pipe in his mouth.
From Time Magazine Archive
The club burgee is a polar bear standing on a cake of ice, his rump raised to the wind, and after the annual regatta, awards are passed out: i.e.,
From Time Magazine Archive
But in 1899 came Sir Thomas Lipton, flying the burgee of the Royal Ulster Yacht Club.
From Time Magazine Archive
The man ambled along without haste, his jaws wagging industriously upon his tobacco, his iron-gray chin whiskers, from the wagging, flapping like a burgee in a breeze.
From The Miracle Man by Packard, Frank L. (Frank Lucius)
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