maire

British  

/ mɑːiːrə /

noun

1. a tall native New Zealand tree, olea cunninghami , with dark brown wood

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Etymology

Origin of maire

Māori

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Example Sentences

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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

M. Richard, the maire of La Villette, attempts similar experiments with animal offal, which M. Dumas, the great savant, declares highly satisfactory.

From An Englishman in Paris Notes and Recollections by Albert D.

The first member in dignity was the "maire" or mayor, selected by the Seneschal of Saintonge from the list of three candidates yearly nominated by his fellow-members.

From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird

He was minister of war in 1792, and maire de Paris 1793.

From Character Sketches of Romance, Fiction and the Drama A Revised American Edition of the Reader's Handbook, Vol. 3 by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer

"M'sieur le maire?" and then he stopped short, daunted by the mayor's stern look of impatient fatigue.

From Studies in love and in terror by Marie Belloc Lowndes

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