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
My first business in the morning was to find out and report myself to the maire.
From Under the Meteor Flag Log of a Midshipman during the French Revolutionary War by Harry Collingwood
Mairi,u means to go to a place to which honor should be shown; e.g., iglesia ie maire 'go to church!'
From Diego Collado's Grammar of the Japanese Language by Richard L. Spear
Also the kyng leid his sege to Milon sur Seyne, duryng which sege the maire and shireves of London were chosen.”
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
Conchon was maire of Clermont-Ferrand, and he who was as innocent of all this as a new-born babe, had his house burned over his head.
From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.
