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

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'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

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

The maire and the aldermen presentyd the kyng with a ml li in too basyns of gold worth vc li.

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 Polynesian islands he easily obtains pre-eminent authority; the king becomes his maire du palais; he can proscribe, he can command; and the temptation is ever towards too much.

From The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston Edition Vol. 18 (of 25) by Robert Louis Stevenson