bur|gess

bur|gess
bur|gess «BUR jihs», noun.
1. a member of the lower house of the colonial legislature in Virginia or Maryland.
2. British. a citizen of a borough.
3. (formerly) a representative of a borough, corporate town, or university in the British Parliament.
╂[< Old French burgeis < Late Latin burgēnsis citizen. See etym. of doublet bourgeois1. (Cf. ↑bourgeois)]

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