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1910 New Catholic Dictionary
• Marguerite Bourgeoys, Venerable
• Bourgeoys, Marguerite, Saint
Webster Dictionary
• Bourgeois
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1911 Encyclopedia Britannica
• Bourgeois
• Leon Victor Auguste Bourgeois
McClintock and Strong's Bible Encyclopedia
• Bourgeois (or Borghes), Jean
• Bourgeois, Francois
• Bourgeois, Jacques
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The Nuttall Encyclopedia
• Bourgeois, Sir Francis

a French word, properly meaning a freeman of a bourg or borough in France; later the term came to have the wider significance of the whole class lying between the ouvriers or workmen and the nobility, and is now used generally of the trading middle-class of any country. In printing, the word (pronounced burjoice') is used of a type coming in size between longprimer and brevier; the derivation is supposed to be from the name of a French printer, otherwise unknown.