The other lady was "burgherly-genteel," a handsome, cultivated girl, had certainly also some soul, but yet was far less busy with a world in her own heart than with the world of fashion. From Wordnik.com. [Stories by Foreign Authors: Scandinavian] Reference
There is an old town, gravely picturesque and austerely fine in its fine old burgherly, Calvinistic, exclusive way; and outside the walls there is a new town, very clean, very cold, very quiet, with horse-cars like Boston, and a new. From Wordnik.com. [A Little Swiss Sojourn] Reference
Where the composer made these burgherly. From Wordnik.com. [Sing-Along Messiah, Disney Hall] Reference
Parents in easy or wealthy circumstances, yet unencumbered with the cares and perversions of aristocracy; nothing eminent in place, in faculty or culture, yet nothing deficient; all around is methodic regulation, prudence, prosperity, kindheartedness; an element of warmth and light, of affection, industry, and burgherly comfort, heightened into elegance; in which the young heart can wholesomely grow. From Wordnik.com. [Paras. 25-49] Reference
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