burgher
bur ger
- n a citizen of an English borough
- n a member of the middle class
- Close by are antique shops that look as though someone has taken the contents of a Dutch burgher's attic, circa 1910, and emptied them right there on the shop floor.
- The paterfamilias, far from being majestic, is a fat burgher observed candidly but with indulgent affection.
- It once made a burgher feel big to buy operas and plays and for a particular evening he commissioned one of each.