as in village
a small residential settlement the invaders captured the castle and sacked the bourg

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Noun
  • In early 20th-century Hungary, a village knitting club takes it upon themselves to poison their abusive husbands with arsenic.
    Georg Szalai, HollywoodReporter, 4 Nov. 2025
  • The behavior observed in the village is a fair representation of the design choices made by the models’ creators.
    Tharin Pillay, Time, 4 Nov. 2025
Noun
  • In the 1970s, on the peaceful Long Island hamlet of Woodmere, a man named Ben Cooper went on Halloween scouting missions.
    Mark Dent, HubSpot, 24 Oct. 2025
  • The Encinitas hamlet has been largely unaffected by a recent push to build more housing.
    Phillip Molnar, San Diego Union-Tribune, 21 Oct. 2025
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“Bourg.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/bourg. Accessed 7 Nov. 2025.

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