Noun
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en-noun)
(North America) A city or town.
* {{quote-book
|year=1921
|year_published=
2012
|edition=HTML
|editor=
|author=Edgar Rice Burroughs
|title=The Efficiency Expert
|chapter=
citation
|genre=
|publisher=The Gutenberg Project
|isbn=
|page=
|passage=Tell mother that I will write her in a day or two, probably from Chicago, as I have always had an idea that that was one
burg where I could make good.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
|date=
|year=2009
|month=June
|first=David
|last=Thriault
|author=
|coauthors=
|title=This Way In: The Sound and the Fury
|volume=151
|issue=6
|page=6
|magazine=Esquire
|publisher=
|issn=
|url=
|passage=Imagine my surprise when I learned that he was not only a Canadian but lived in Ottawa, that icy
burg I had left so many kilometers -- sorry, miles -- behind me.
}}
* {{quote-magazine
|date=
|year=2010
|month=Feb
|first=Paige
|last=Orloff
|author=
|coauthors=
|title=Big Style on a (Little) Budget
|volume=33
|issue=2
|page=84
|magazine=Country Living
|publisher=
|issn=
|url=
|passage=It's been said that Wilder modeled that fictional setting on Peterborough, a quaint
burg tucked away in New Hampshire's verdant southwestern hills.
}}
(historical) A fortified town in medieval Europe.
