Translations for burghers in the English»Italian Dictionary (Go to Italian»English)

burgher [Brit ˈbəːɡə, Am ˈbərɡər] N arch HISTORY

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cittadino m / cittadina f

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arengo HISTORY (assemblea)

= in the Middle Ages an assembly of burghers

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Alongside hunting parties and well-to-do landowners and burghers, we find a ragged rabble of floozies and farmhands, blacksmiths and street-vendors, barefooted scamps and beggars with peg legs. www.telegraph.co.uk

There was also the development of private tuition in the families of lords and wealthy burghers, which may have extended to women. en.wikipedia.org

When the burghers couldn't find the scholar, they hanged three of his friends in retaliation for his crime. en.wikipedia.org

The burghers were not presented in a positive image of glory; instead, they display pain, anguish and fatalism. en.wikipedia.org

Townspeople who lived in chartered towns were burghers, as opposed to serfs who lived in villages. en.wikipedia.org

As a result, all white residents of Swaziland or burghers were advised to leave Swaziland in anticipation for the skirmishes about to take place. en.wikipedia.org

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