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▪ I. ‖ maire1|ˈmaire|
Also mairi.
[Maori.]
A name for several New Zealand trees with heavy close-grained wood: a. Santalum cunninghami; b. Olea of various species; c. Eugenia maire.
1835W. Yate Acc. N. Zealand (ed. 2) 41 Mairi—a tree of the Podocarpus species, growing from forty to sixty feet high. 1883J. Hector Handbk. N. Zealand 132, 133 (Morris) Maire—a small tree ten to fifteen feet high;..wood hard, close-grained, heavy..Black maire, N.O. Jasmineæ; also Maire-rau-nui, Olea Cunninghamii.
▪ II. ‖ maire2|mɛr|
[Fr.; see mayor.]
A mayor; the chief municipal officer of a French town or of one of the arrondissements or districts of Paris.
1790H. Walpole Let. 30 Aug. (1905) XIV. 289 At Marseilles..a Monsieur Cazalet..had been invited to dine with the maire! a1861A. H. Clough Poems (1862) 239 Their maire, he said, could neither write nor read. 1900C. M. Yonge Modern Broods xiii. 121 She gabbled away most eloquently to the Maire, almost as fluently as a born Frenchwoman. 1955Times 22 Aug. 8/6 As a record of continuous office-holding it is overshadowed by that of Edmond Mathis, maire of Ehuns in the Haute-Savoie from 1878 to 1953. 1964C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. i. 31 Monsieur Boeuf the maire, who looked exactly like his name. 1974S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight ii. 55 Let's get married by some maire in the country.
▪ III. maire
obs. form of mayor, more. |