(br′zhwä, br·zhwä′) adjective
Of or pertaining to the commercial or middle class, as distinguished from the nobility or from the working class: used by some writers as signifying uncultivated; ill-bred; common.
—noun plural ·geois
1. A citizen; a member of the commercial or middle class; a townsman; tradesman.
2. A 14th century coin.
3. In radical circles, anyone who owns property. [<F <OF burgeis. Doublet of BURGESS.]

(bər·jois′) noun
A size of type: about 9-point. [? after a French printer]

(br·zhwá′), Léon Victor,
1851–1925, French statesman.