† combourgeoisien.
Obsolete.
A league or alliance of mutual citizenship between independent cities; comburghership: used particularly of Switzerland.
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the mind > language > speech > agreement > [noun] > an agreement
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gentlemen's agreement1880
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society > authority > rule or government > politics > international politics or relations > international agreements > [noun] > alliance or confederacy > an alliance > of mutual citizenship
combourgeoisie1602
comburghership1606
1602 W. Fulbecke Pandectes 55 So the Athenians did make free of their citie..all the Rhodians: which the Rhodians requited with like curtesie, which was nothing else but a comburgeosie, such as Bodinus reporteth to haue been made betwixt them of Valoys, and certaine towneships of the Heluetians.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4350/3 Our strict Alliances and Combourgeoisy with that Principality.
1707 London Gaz. No. 4393/1 Contained in the Treaty of Combourgeoisy between Berne and Neufchatel.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1891; most recently modified version published online June 2021).
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