What's the difference between bourgeois and burgher?

Bourgeois


Definition:

  • (n.) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.
  • (n.) A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class.
  • (a.) Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Movies such as Concussion , about the dissatisfactions of a bourgeois lesbian marriage, are already starting to ask these questions.
  • (2) Even China’s feline population suffered as Red Guards tried to eliminate what they claimed was a symbol of “bourgeois decadence”.
  • (3) Macron, a former investment banker and senior civil servant who grew up in a bourgeois family in Amiens, served as deputy chief of staff to Hollande but was not part of the Socialist party.
  • (4) And the marvellously named Victor Gauntlett, vintage-car driver and pilot, looks gloriously suburban haut-bourgeois, with his study full of The Miracle of Speed symbols in pictures and models, while the room's decoration and furnishings are all Home Counties 1919 in sympathies.
  • (5) Yet the enemy of the bourgeoisie is impeccably bourgeois, and when I arrived for our meeting at a swanky hotel near the Arc de Triomphe, I found Haneke – just off a flight from Vienna, where he lives – tucking into a luxurious lunch in the restaurant.
  • (6) The opera was "anti-American, anti-semitic and anti-bourgeois".
  • (7) • theglory.co Chosen by music, satire and cabaret duo Bourgeois and Maurice Soho Theatre Facebook Twitter Pinterest Photograph: Richard Davenport Soho has undergone so many facelifts in recent years, it has begun to take on traits of the ageing celebrity: plastic, shiny, hard to find the personality.
  • (8) The library did not deem it appropriate to pay citizen Burovaya [Skorodumov widow] for the erotic literature, broadsheets and magazines, as this literature presents neither scientific nor historical value to the library’s readers, and is an especially harmful vestige of bourgeois ideology,” he wrote.
  • (9) There are other qualifications, other than being a citizen of the country, and it has to do with white skin and the habits of what is regarded to be civilised society, and recognisable, bourgeois society."
  • (10) His group of bourgeois friends, aged over 60, (some of whom are inspired by real writers, intellectuals and artists), resist by attending trashy parties; it's a generation incapable of growing up.
  • (11) This is set in the comfortable circumstances of Torontonian bourgeois life, about what happens when you discover that your dad isn’t your biological dad.
  • (12) Add to that the venerated reputation of its wine, and a whiff of bourgeois privilege and conservatism, and you expect a city of well-groomed, self-satisfied people.
  • (13) Before Dylan and Jagger cut the ribbon to open our bourgeois-friendly field, Mike Heron, Robin Williamson and Clive Palmer of the Incredible String Band had already snuck in and were happily ensconced in a far corner that few have visited since.
  • (14) There was a horrible psychodrama developing on the left at that time: middle-class Maoists telling you you're impure, bourgeois, because you won't go and kill someone.
  • (15) The centre of the city may still give the impression that the messy legacy of deindustrialisation has not been escaped, but here all is largely well: the streets vibrate with the low hum of bourgeois comfort and 35% of the locals are graduates.
  • (16) Maoist bureaucracy was corrupt and self-serving, party activists were bourgeois and anti-socialist, and the communist revolution under threat.
  • (17) Punk often sneered at "art" as airy-fairy, bourgeois self-indulgence, but its ranks were full of art-school graduates and this artiness blossomed with the sound, design and stage presentation of bands such as Wire and Talking Heads.
  • (18) This tendency is an expression of a change in family structure, which until recently conformed to the ideal of the nineteenth century bourgeois family.
  • (19) Berlin: The Land of Cockaigne by Heinrich Mann Mann, brother of Thomas, wrote Berlin in the tradition of the bildungsroman , and the introduction to the 1929 English edition offers fair summary: “Andrew Zumsee rises steadily, jesuitically, through the coarse social strata of bourgeois Berlin, behind the skirts of women, via boudoir wire-pulling, to an hour of vertiginous triumph, or at least an illusion thereof.” Life, as in many of these novels, is speculative: “I don’t know what it is that they call transacting business; but it certainly doesn’t take much time … It’s a lazy man’s Heaven, a perfect land of Cockaigne.” 10.
  • (20) We talk about Louise Bourgeois , whom Hirst visited before her death last year, and I mention her belief that happy people could not make great art.

Burgher


Definition:

  • (n.) A freeman of a burgh or borough, entitled to enjoy the privileges of the place; any inhabitant of a borough.
  • (n.) A member of that party, among the Scotch seceders, which asserted the lawfulness of the burgess oath (in which burgesses profess "the true religion professed within the realm"), the opposite party being called antiburghers.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) The Bilbao Guggenheim is a treaty port negotiated with the burghers of this rather down-at-heel city, part bullion vault and part glimmering mirage to cow and dazzle the natives.
  • (2) Sir Mick Jagger showed a sign of rigor mortis by refusing to serenade the burghers of Davos, but struts and frets his years upon the world's stages to little cogent effect.
  • (3) A closer look at the conception and evolution of Rodin's masterpiece, "The Burghers of Calais," amply illustrates this vision.
  • (4) With 18 years of parliamentary service under his belt, the 57-year-old Galloway had a good idea of how to win an election – even if he had suffered two recent black eyes at the ballot box, having failed both to charm the burghers of Poplar and Limehouse in 2010 after relinquishing his Bethnal Green and Bow seat, and to convince his old comrades in Glasgow to anoint him an MSP at last year's Scottish parliamentary elections.
  • (5) Corbyn’s – and Labour’s – opponents will seize on anything to paint him as an unreconstructed Stalinist itching to send the burghers of Kensington off to some marshy gulag.
  • (6) You may suspect the Burghers of Brussels of imperial overreach.
  • (7) If the pollsters are correct, the risk-averse burghers of Baden-Württemberg – with their locally assembled Mercedes in their garages and their jobs for life – may end up electing, by a narrow vote, Germany's first Green regional prime minister.
  • (8) Two ethnic groups--Moors and Burghers--were relatively over-represented compared with the proportion of these groups in the national population.
  • (9) It's a piece of news that no doubt had good burghers from the shires choking on their cornflakes .
  • (10) moelfabansuppers.com Jelly & Gin A driving force in Scottish guerrilla restaurants, Jelly and Gin's owners, Aoife Behan and Carol Soutar, have a suite of pop-up events in rotation, such as Burgher Burger, in which an established chef leaves their restaurant to cook burgers in a greasy spoon.
  • (11) Tickets for Burgher Burger cost £35, often including drinks such as craft beers.

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