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‖ bourg|bur, bʊəg|
[F. bourg:—late L. burg-us, ad. WGer. burg: see borough.]
Used by historical writers in the earlier sense of town or village under the shadow of a castle; or of ‘continental’ as distinguished from English town; occasionally also in the modern French sense of ‘market town’.
c1450Merlin xv. 236 Thei brent bourgs, and townes and castelles. 1536Remed. Sedition 15 b, Many bourges in Germany, haue a great nombre of Jewes in them. 1690Lond. Gaz. No. 2603/1 A great Bourg called Canina. c1700Gentl. Instr. (1732) 266 He can only lose an abandon'd Bourg. 1840Thackeray Paris Sk.-bk. (1872) 197 They reached the bourg of Rossillon. 1859Tennyson Enid 276 Ye think the rustic cackle of your bourg The murmur of the world! 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 47 The Flemings..had settled in and about the bourg and its spreading suburbs. |