单词 | bourg |
释义 | bourg/bo͝orɡ /noun historical 1A town or village under the shadow of a castle.The settlers were moving out on their own, creating new social units - manors, lordships, abbeys, bourgs - where none had existed before....
1.1A French market town.In contrast, most southern industry was artisanal and centred in small towns: in the bourgs around Brignoles, for example, there were perfumeries, soap and paper works, and tanneries (fifteen in Barjols alone)....
OriginFrench, from late Latin burgus 'castle' (in medieval Latin 'fortified town'), ultimately of Germanic origin and related to borough. |
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