alderman
noun
a member of a municipal legislative body, especially of a municipal council.
aldermancy
-
a word derived from
alderman.
Example Sentences
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Another alderman, Nicholas Exton, of Queenhithe Ward, had recently been removed from his aldermancy for opprobrious words used to Northampton during his first mayoralty.
From London and the Kingdom - Volume I by Reginald R. (Reginald Robinson) Sharpe
