Also 7 burgade, -ard. [Fr. bourgade, f. bourg a town (cf. prec.) + -ADE.] A village, or unwalled town consisting of scattered dwellings. (Now only an alien word referring to France; but in 17th c. used as English.)
1601. Holland, Pliny, I. 135. Dispersed into pettie villages and burgades. Ibid. (1610), Camden’s Brit., 196. A proper little towne … which of two burgards … is growne, as it were, into one burgh.
1658. Ussher, Ann., 148. He set upon the Town; being but an open burgade.
1796. Morse, Amer. Geog., II. 308. The canton [Uri] consists only of villages, and little towns or bourgades.
1851. Sir F. Palgrave, Norm. & Eng., I. 325. A large populous bourgade … which had grown up under the protection of the Abbey.
