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ˈborough-town arch.
Forms: see borough.
[f. borough + town. Cf. OE. burhtún enclosure surrounding a castle (as in the place-name Burton).]
A town which is a borough. Still sometimes applied to Irish municipal boroughs. Cf. burrows-town (Sc.).[c1000Woman's Lament 31 (Gr.) Sindon burᵹtunas breruin beweaxne.] 1382Wyclif Joshua vii. 2 Of the burȝtown [1388 the citee] Bethel. 1393Lang. P. Pl. C. iv. 112 Hit ys noȝt semly..in cyte ne in borwton Þat vsurers oþer regratours..Be fraunchised for a free man. 1480Caxton Chron. Eng. ccxliii. 288 Thurgh every Cyte and good Burgh tounes in Englond. 1601Holland Pliny (1634) I. 88 One Borough Towne of Romane Citizens. a1674Clarendon Hist. Reb. I. i. 67 Edenborough..was but a Burrough Town within the Diocess of Saint Andrews. 1839Capper Topogr. Dict. 1052 Wexford, a seaport..shire, assize, and borough town. |