burgerin

See also: Bürgerin and burger in

Dutch

Etymology

From burger (“civilian”) +‎ -in (“suffix indicating femininity”)

Noun

burgerin f (plural burgerinnen, diminutive burgerinnetje n, masculine burger)

  1. (archaic) female citizen
  2. (archaic) female bourgeois
    Weet, dat ik geen draen zal spinnen,
Tegen kuise burgerinnen,
Welkers hart na wijsheid haakt,
En in liefde brand [sic] en blaakt. (De schijndeugd en huichelrij der Franse burgerinnen, 1671.)
Know that I will not spin threads,
Against chaste female civilians,
Whose heart hooks to wisdom,
Ans burns and glows in love. (The apparent virtue and hypocrisy of the French female bourgeois, 1671.)
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