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  • noun Plural form of burgee.

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Examples

  • The two tents stood there, with the little burgees flapping idly in the morning breeze.

    The Strange Cabin on Catamount Island Lawrence J. Leslie

  • In some of the Rotterdam canals the barges are so packed that they lie touching each other, with their burgees flying all in the same direction, as the vanes of St. Sepulchre's in Holborn cannot do.

    A Wanderer in Holland 1903

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Náutico de Palma.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Náutico de Palma.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Náutico de Palma.

    Sail-World.com USA Latest News 2010

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Náutico de Palma.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Náutico de Palma.

    NZ On Screen 2010

  • The yacht will be called Camper and will carry the burgees of the Royal New Zealand Yacht Squadron and the Real Club Nautico de Palma. '

    Sail-World.com USA Latest News 2010

  • Club burgees on the shrouds and American flags off the stern, Scandone went out in style ...

    Sail-World.com USA Latest News 2008

  • Owen had fitted up for himself, because there was plenty of room in the big house, and every fellow he knew had some kind of a den in which he could keep his boyish treasures, in the way of foreign postage stamp albums, photos taken by himself connected with outings he had been on, college flags and burgees, and well, just such traps as the average boy liked to see around him when he's out of school, and settling down to read a favorite book.

    The Chums of Scranton High Hugh Morgan's Uphill Fight Donald Ferguson

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