Definitions
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- adjective Befitting a
burgher .
Etymologies
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burgher + -ly
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Examples
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The other lady was "burgherly-genteel," a handsome, cultivated girl, had certainly also some soul, but yet was far less busy with a world in her own heart than with the world of fashion.
Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian Juhani Aho 1891
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There is an old town, gravely picturesque and austerely fine in its fine old burgherly, Calvinistic, exclusive way; and outside the walls there is a new town, very clean, very cold, very quiet, with horse-cars like Boston, and a new
A Little Swiss Sojourn William Dean Howells 1878
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