parliamentary burgh

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Noun

parliamentary burgh (plural parliamentary burghs)

  1. (Scotland, historical) A burgh whose boundaries, as first fixed in 1832, were adopted for municipal purposes, with regard to which they stand practically in the same position as royal burghs.