单词 | bourgade |
释义 | ‖ bourgade|burgad| Also 7 burgade, -ard. [Fr. bourgade, f. bourg a town (cf. prec.) + -ade.] A village, or unwalled town consisting of scattered dwellings. (Now only an alien word referring to France; but in 17th c. used as English.)
1601Holland Pliny I. 135 Dispersed into pettie villages and burgades. 1610― Camden's Brit. 196 A proper little towne..which of two burgards..is growne, as it were, into one burgh. 1658Ussher Ann. 148 He set upon the Town; being but an open burgade. 1796Morse Amer. Geog. II. 308 The canton [Uri] consists only of villages, and little towns or bourgades. 1851Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. I. 325 A large populous bourgade..which had grown up under the protection of the Abbey. |

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