Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—B

Bourgeois

(French), our burgess. The class between the “gentleman” and the peasantry. It includes all merchants, shopkeepers, and what we call the “middle class.”

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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