Definitions
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun Plural form of
burgomeister .
Etymologies
Sorry, no etymologies found.
Support
Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word burgomeisters.
Examples
-
Rather than simply bashing the beast in the head, the outraged burgomeisters dressed it as a man, cut off its snout, sat it in court, tried it, and convicted it of eating people, for which it was judicially put to death.
-
He turns his back upon the bright, beautiful sea, tufted with cakes of ice that seem in the distance like the white, pure lilies on a glassy pond, and paddles off home with good-by to the fishing, good-by to the black-headed seals, good-by to the low islands with their gulls and mollimucks and burgomeisters and tern and kittiwakes and eider-ducks -- good-by to the long day's fun!
Comments
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.