Sentence examples for burgomaster from inspiring English sources
The word 'burgomaster' is correct and can be used in written English
'Burgomaster' is a term used in some European countries to refer to the elected head of a municipality or town. It can also be used as a title for a mayor or chief magistrate. Example: The burgomaster of the quaint town of Bruges welcomed the tourists with a warm smile and a traditional Flemish greeting.
noun
The mayor, or head magistrate, of a town in The Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and certain other countries.
As a civic leader, he was councillor (1504 20) and burgomaster (1520 25).
As burgomaster of Lwów for many years, he witnessed the Cossack rebellion against Polish rule in the Ukraine (1648 49) and wrote two versified narratives of the event: Kozaczyzna ("The Cossacks") and Burda Ruska ("The Ruthenian Affray").
After serving with the Zürich contingent in the defeat of Charles the Bold of Burgundy at Morat (June 22 , 1476 and participating in the agreement of Stans (Dec. 22, 1481), which averted cantonal strife, Waldmann was elected burgomaster of Zürich in 1483.
He fell in love with the daughter of an innkeeper, Käthchen Schönkopf, but she preferred someone more solid, a lawyer who eventually became deputy burgomaster of Leipzig.
In 1546 Duke Maurice, elector of Saxony, appointed Agricola burgomaster (mayor) of Chemnitz.
As his national political career waned, he rose to prominence in the city government of Berlin, where, as chief burgomaster from 1878, he carried out a program of public services and improvements.
Meanwhile, the burgomasters of Copenhagen and Malmö allied with the north German city of Lübeck to restore the imprisoned former Danish king Christian II and provoked a civil war (the Count's War; 1533 36) when Lübeck's forces invaded Holstein.
Thanks to its Calvinist burgomasters, the people of Amsterdam eat their sugar in secret, and are forbidden to own dolls or any other replicas of the human form.
They are more like the cast of characters from a Trollope novel than a pantheon of gods, an assemblage of socialites and burgomasters, philosophers and jocks, folks who eat breakfast and fall in love, swing deals, have airs and relish a joke.
An article on Dec. 31 about the registration fee that Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg paid to begin his second term, which was raised to $9 after being 15 cents for many years, misstated the year that New Amsterdam, as New York was called, was incorporated and first governed by burgomasters.
In a petition to the burgomasters of Nieuw Amsterdam in 1655, residents of what was then Brewers' Street asserted that it was "becoming more and more unfit for public use".
