maire
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Cracked a foreign diplomat in expectant Washington: "Us ne passeront pas devant le maire* but there will be a common-law marriage."
From Time Magazine Archive
In this yere was the firste maire of London; and seynt Marie Overeye was that yere begonne.
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
Alas! there has been an accident, m'sieur le maire!
From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes
Ad′joint, a civil officer who assists a French maire: an assistant professor in a French college.
From Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary (part 1 of 4: A-D) by Various
And than he leide a sege to the cite of Rone and contynued; and duryng the sege the maire of London was chosen upon seint Edwardes day.”
From A Chronicle of London from 1089 to 1483 Written in the Fifteenth Century, and for the First Time Printed from MSS. in the British Museum by Sir Nicholas Harris Nicolas
