maire

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

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

Also the xviij day of August suynge the kyng graunted to the maire of London waryne.

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

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