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
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
Happily, or unhappily—who shall say which?—there was a greater fool even than himself in the village; and he was the maire.
From Tom Burke Of "Ours", Volume II by Charles James Lever
Sergeaunts of the maire and the schirreves of London schulde b’re maces of silv’.
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
"Let that maire be brought before me," said I, with a haughty indignation.
From A Day's Ride A Life's Romance by Charles James Lever
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