burgomaster
noun
bur·go·mas·ter
ˈbər-gə-ˌma-stər 
: the chief magistrate of a town in some European countries : mayor
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His two hundred or so paintings consist of a strict diet of burgomasters, brewers, pipe smokers, regents, street urchins, people holding various things in their hands (donkey’s jawbone, stretched pig’s bladder), and hundreds of Dutch heads plattered on flat linen collars and millstone ruffs.
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Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Lavaux is the village’s burgomaster, a position equivalent to mayor or chief magistrate.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
Zachary Fine, The New Yorker, 3 Nov. 2023
Lavaux is the village’s burgomaster, a position equivalent to mayor or chief magistrate.
—BostonGlobe.com, 5 May 2021
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burgomaster
noun
bur·go·mas·ter
ˈbər-gə-ˌmas-tər
: the mayor of a town in some European countries
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