| 单词 | burgess ticket |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburgess ticket burgess ticket n. Scottish a certificate attesting that a person is a burgess of a particular corporation. ΚΠ 1644 S. Rutherford Due Right of Presbyteries 220 The Burgesse ticket whereby a man hath right to all the citie priviledges may remaine, when the man for some crime committed against the citie hath lost all his citie priviledges and is not now a free citizen. 1657 S. Colvil Mock Poem (1751) 56 Beside her loss of burgess ticket. 1723 W. Meston Knight i. 11 In his broad Hat..The League and Covenant together He tied, and under Hat-band sticked, And wore them like a Burgess-ticket. 1820 Caledonian Mercury 29 Apr. The Council having previously resolved to admit Lord Gillies to the freedom of the burgh [of Stirling], his burgess ticket was presented to his Lordship by Provost Buchan. 1945 Scotsman 28 June 3 (caption) Provost Dunmore presenting the Duke of Hamilton with a casket containing the Burgess ticket when he and Group Captain D. F. McIntyre..received the freedom of Prestwick. 2007 Evening News (Edinburgh) (Nexis) 30 June 16 He became the first foreign monarch to be given the freedom of the city of Edinburgh when he was presented with a Burgess Ticket in a silver gilt casket. < as lemmas |
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