Also 6 Bergomask, 7 Burgomaske. [ad. It. Bergamasco of Bergamo.]
† 1. Bergomask dance: a rustic dance, framed in imitation of the people of Bergamo (a province in the state of Venice), ridiculed as clownish in their manners and dialect. Nares.
1590. Shaks., Mids. N., V. 360. Will it please you … to heare a Bergomask dance … Come, your Burgomaske.
2. A native or inhabitant of Bergamo.
1602. Marston, Ant. & Mellida, I. Introd. A wealthie mountbanking burgomasco’s heire of Venice.
1821. Byron, Doge of Ven., IV. ii. 295. ’Tis a certain Bertram…. Doge. Bertram, the Bergamask.
