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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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
For the mayoress he wrote catchy pastiches that might have come from a witty chanteuse’s nightclub act.
From New York Times • Feb. 19, 2021
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
They stared like a flock of geese, and could not satiate themselves with looking at the dress and physiognomy of Leviathan; but the mayoress, a native of Saxony, towered above them all, like an Oriad.
From Faustus his Life, Death, and Doom by Borrow, George Henry
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