Proper noun
Bourke (plural Bourkes)
A topographical surname from Anglo-Norman for someone who lived in a fortified place.
And always Melbourne, Melbourne, Melbourne, over and over the same photo in glaring greens and reds, of a tram, huffy, blunderous, manoeuvring itself with pole akimbo round the tight corner where Bourke Street enters Spring. Helen Garner
A very considerable body of the German people live in America and propose to fight that Government. Bourke in his great speech last week welcoming the Belgian mission to Boston worked out the President's meaning with care. Shane Leslie
City of God edited and abridged by Vernon J. Bourke 1958 Moreover, Augustine in that passage demonstrates his own personal preference for the Greek thus eliminating any possibility that Saint Jerome translated the OT from Greek. Source: Internet
A man wearing a face mask walks out of the Myer Bourke Street department store on March 29, 2020 in Melbourne, Australia. Source: Internet
Despite the divorce story, O'Malley and Bourke are mentioned as husband and wife in English documents of the period, and so appear in English eyes to have remained married, or at least to have been allied. Source: Internet
Daytime temperatures above average, mostly notably in the north, where the mercury in Bourke will hit 42C. Source: Internet