/berr"jee, berr jee"/ , n.
a triangular flag or one having a shallow, angular indentation in the fly, forming two tails, used as an identification flag, esp. by yachts.
[ 1840-50; perh. shortening of * burgee's flag, by reanalysis of * burgess flag, burgess translating F bourgeois in sense "owner" (of a ship) ]