| 单词 | burgess wife |
| 释义 | > as lemmasburgess wife burgess wife n. now rare the wife of a burgess. ΚΠ a1425 (?a1400) G. Chaucer Romaunt Rose (Hunterian) (1891) l. 6864 Thise burgeis wyues..Riche ben and eke plesyng. ?1483 W. Caxton tr. Caton i. sig. Bvii A good bourgeys wyf and wel beloued of her husbond. c1550 in J. G. Dalyell Scotish Poems 16th Cent. (1801) II. 192 With burges wifes they led their liues. 1771 Edinb. Almanack 134 The persons intitled to be admitted..are old men and women, burgesses, burgess wives, or children of burgesses, not under the age of 50 years, and single. 1868 R. Browning Ring & Bk. II. iv. 7 Violante, the old innocent burgess-wife. 1906 M. Bateson Borough Customs II. p. cxii Rules of a general kind, applied not specially to the burgess wife who traded as a merchant, but to all burgess wives. < as lemmas |
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