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单词 free burgher
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free burghern.

Brit. /ˌfriː ˈbəːɡə/, U.S. /ˈˌfri ˈbərɡər/
Forms: see free adj., n., and adv. and burgher n.
Origin: Formed within English, by compounding; apparently originally modelled on a Dutch lexical item. Etymons: free adj., burgher n.
Etymology: < free adj.+ burgher n., apparently originally after Dutch vrijburger former employee of the Dutch East India Company settling in the East Indies or South Africa (although this is first attested slightly later: 1628 with reference to Java; > Afrikaans vryburger ). Compare Dutch vrijburger free citizen (1864), Middle Low German vrībörger citizen free of certain taxes (16th cent.), German Freibürger citizen of a free borough (14th cent.; now usually (after Dutch or Afrikaans) with reference to South Africa). Compare earlier free burghership n. Compare also earlier free burgess (see free adj. 25).
Now historical.
A free citizen. Also (South African): a Dutch-speaking colonist freed from Dutch East India Company controls.
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society > law > legal right > right of specific class, person, or place > [noun] > status or rights of being a citizen > one possessing
citizena1325
commoner1384
citinerc1450
free burgher1624
citoyen?1793
national1845
1624 J. Skinner True Relation Proc. against Eng. at Amboyna 3 The Garrison of this Castle consisteth of about 200. Dutch souldiers, & a Company of free Burgers.
a1711 R. Atkyns Anc. & Present State Glostershire (1712) 347/2 All Housekeepers in general had Votes, whereas before, only the free Burghers were Electors.
1827 Rep. Commissioners upon Finances at Cape of Good Hope II. 55 The privileges accorded to the free burghers of Cape Town,..followed by an extension of these privileges to the European colonists.
1930 Times 6 May 12/3 In 1291 the number of free burghers of Berwick was 91 only.
2002 T. Pinchuck et al. Rough Guide S. Afr. (ed. 3) 108 By the end of the eighteenth century, the almost 26,000-strong slave population of the Cape exceeded that of the free burghers.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, June 2008; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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