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BOURGEOIS

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Originally appearing in Volume V04, Page 330 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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BOURGEOIS , a See also:

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

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