Obs. Also 5 buriays, burioyse, burgoyze, -oise. [a. OF. burgeise, fem. of burgeis: see BURGESS.] The wife of a burgess; a female citizen.
a. 1450. Knt. de la Tour (1868), 12. A worthi burgoyze, a good woman. Ibid., 138. A burioyse, a riche woman.
1483. Caxton, Cato, C iv. The husbond of the sayd burgeyse.
