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

At the end of it all, she said distractedly, there may be "plus de maire et plus de m�re"�no more mayor and no more mother left.

From Time Magazine Archive

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 Lever, Charles James

Adam and nouestro maire Evo are put into the Garden of Eden.

From Essays in the Study of Folk-Songs (1886) by Martinengo-Cesaresco, Countess Evelyn

Looking furtively at the mayor's pale face, the young man regretted that he had not taken more on himself, for m'sieur le maire looked seriously displeased.

From Studies in love and in terror by Lowndes, Marie Belloc