mayoress
Americannoun
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a woman who is the chief executive official of a city, village, or town.
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the wife of a mayor.
noun
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the wife of a mayor
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a female mayor
Gender
See -ess.
Etymology
Origin of mayoress
1400–50; mayor + -ess; replacing late Middle English meyresse
Example Sentences
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But the woman in the slippers and robe was no Cora Hoover Hooper, the cartoon mayoress of “Anyone Can Whistle,” her first stage musical role, in 1964.
From New York Times • Oct. 12, 2022
Former town mayoress Sara Smith set up her café perched on the edge of the resort's golden sands and in the shadow of Great Yarmouth's famous Pleasure Beach in 1999.
From BBC • Jul. 24, 2021
The lord mayor wears a “huge gold chain,” Moran explained, and a former lady mayoress had a similar piece of regalia made with Australia’s national gemstone.
From Washington Times • Sep. 28, 2015
Last week, some mediocre California mayoress announced that she wasn’t going to attend a Veterans Day event in her city of Richmond.
From Slate • Nov. 13, 2011
This martyr was Mrs Simeon Clowes, the mayoress.
From The Matador of the Five Towns and Other Stories by Bennett, Arnold
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