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commissaire|kɒmɪˈsɛə(r)|
[F., see commissary.]
= commissary in various senses.
1753Smollett Ct. Fathom I. xxv. 167 The commissaire of the quarter, had at first ordered this Oriental to be watched in his out-goings, according to the maxims of the French police. 1791J. Wedgwood Let. 2 Sept. (1965) 334 The commissaires appointed by the acadamy for the ascertaining of weights and measures. 1793Amer. State Papers (Foreign Rel.) (1832) I. 400 The commissaires have persisted in their measure of shutting the port. 1870Mrs. Ogier Ward Jrnl. 19 Sept. in D.P. Carew Many Years, Many Girls (1967) i. 19 He had obtained a pass from the Commissaire here. 1911T. E. Lawrence Lett. (1938) 129 It's rather good that the commissaire should be guarding my thefts in all innocence. 1912Ibid. 144, I took a class of four (including our Commissaire) in local history. |