单词 | burgomaster |
释义 | burgomastern. 1. The chief magistrate of a Dutch or Flemish town, nearly corresponding to the mayor in England. Often used loosely for any member of the governing body of a foreign municipality. Also for borough-master n., as an official title in certain English boroughs. ΘΚΠ society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > Dutch or Flemish pensionary1509 borough-mastera1513 burgomaster1586 pensioner1587 burghermaster1676 society > authority > office > holder of office > magistrate > municipal magistrate > [noun] > chief magistrate or mayor > in certain Irish boroughs borough-master1696 burgomaster1707 1586 T. Bowes tr. P. de la Primaudaye French Acad. I. 624 In some places they haue Aduoyers, or Bourg-maisters, as in the Cantons of Switzerland, and in the free townes of Germany. 1592 T. Nashe Pierce Penilesse (Brit. Libr. copy) sig. I2 The Beare..beeing chiefe Burgomaster of all the Beastes vnder the Lyon. 1598 R. Hakluyt tr. W. Esturmy & J. Kington in Princ. Navigations (new ed.) I. 157 Euery of the foresayd cities sent one of their burgomasters vnto the towne of Hage in Holland. 1598 W. Shakespeare Henry IV, Pt. 1 ii. i. 76 I am ioyned with..Burgomasters and great Oneyres, such as can hold in. View more context for this quotation 1707 London Gaz. No. 4350/1 The..Freeholders, Burgomasters, and other Inhabitants, of the ancient Borough of Cricklade. a1719 J. Addison in Wks. (c1888) I. 523 They chuse their councils and burgomasters out of the burgeois, as in the other governments of Switzerland. 1739 S. Johnson Boerhaave in Gentleman's Mag. Apr. 176 The only Daughter of a Burgo-master of Leyden. 1864 J. F. Kirk Hist. Charles the Bold (U.S. ed.) II. iv. i. 220 The Burgo~masters were..employed in strengthening the defences. 2. A species of gull ( Larus glaucus). ΘΚΠ the world > animals > birds > order Charadriiformes > family Laridae (gulls and terns) > [noun] > member of genus Larus (gull) > larus hyperboreus (glaucous gull) burgomaster1678 faskidar1703 glaucus1785 glaucous gull1828 1678 J. Ray tr. F. Willughby Ornithol. 349 The Great grey Gull..called at Amsterdam the Burgomaster of Groenland. 1753 Chambers's Cycl. Suppl. Burgomaster of Greenland..a whimsical name given by the Dutch sailors to a species of..sea gull. 1853 E. K. Kane U.S. Grinnell Exped. (1856) xvi. 124 The birds, too, were back with us..the Ivory gull, the Burgomaster, and the tern. 1883 A. Leslie tr. A. E. Nordenskiöld Voy. Vega (new ed.) 43. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1888; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1586 |
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