mayoress
Americannoun
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mayoresses
plural
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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.
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
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
Her husband could often be jealous of playing second fiddle on ceremonial occasions so "I decided not to make him mayoress as I thought that would make that worse".
From BBC ● Nov. 26, 2018
The new lady mayoress had been researching her predecessors when she stumbled upon the story of the opal, Moran said.
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
May it please your Majesty," said the mayoress, "it is very true that many of the young nobility do come within the city walls and prove good customers to our husbands.
From Olla Podrida by Frederick Marryat
Other mayoral chains blazed in the centre of the platform, together with fine hats of mayoresses and uniforms of police-superintendents and captains of fire-brigades.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
The lady mayoresses were delightful in all their pride and glory.
From Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie by John Charles Van Dyke
There, now; that's something that I can quite recommend; it's decidedly à la mode, worn by all the duchesses, countesses, baronesses, and lady mayoresses, at all the balls, routs, conversaziones, and concerts given this season!
From The Crown of Success by A. L. O. E.
Nevertheless, balls had been offered by previous mayoresses.
From The Card, a Story of Adventure in the Five Towns by Arnold Bennett
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