alcaldes

• plural

  plural

  The grammatical form denoting more than one person, place, thing, or idea.

  of alcalde.
  alcalde

  noun

  a mayor having judicial powers.

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alcaldes

Mas advocates strenuously the prohibition of trade granted to alcaldes and an extension of their term of office.

From The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898, Volume 36, 1649-1666 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. by Edward Gaylord Bourne

This feeling extended through all classes, and, through the interposition of Providence, as it was considered by the successful party, the alcaldes were changed, and the republic saved.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

Thirty Indians are elected every year, who are called alcaldes of the well, and whose business it is to keep them in good order, and the tanks constantly supplied with water.

From Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vol. I. by John L. Stephens

He fell into some violent disputes with the citizens of Havana, over the appointment of alcaldes, a duty which they charged him with neglecting.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

A new system of choosing alcaldes was also decreed.

From The History of Cuba, vol. 1 by Willis Fletcher Johnson

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