Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Bourgeois

Bourgeois ({not transcribed}) , noun

[From a French type founder named Bourgeois, or from French bourgeois of the middle class; hence applied to an intermediate size of type between brevier and long primer: compare German bourgeois, borgis. Compare Burgess.]

(Printing) A size of type between long primer and brevier. See Type.

This line is printed in bourgeois type.

Bourgeois ({not transcribed}) , noun

[French, from bourg town; of German origin. See Burgess.]

A man of middle rank in society; one of the shopkeeping class. [France.]
Characteristic of the middle class, as in France.