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单词 maire
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mairen.1

Brit. /mɛː/, U.S. /mɛr/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maire.
Etymology: < French maire (see mayor n.).
The chief municipal officer of a French town or city; (also) the chief municipal officer of one of the arrondissements or districts of Paris.
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1790 H. Walpole Let. 30 Aug. (1905) XIV. 289 At Marseilles..a Monsieur Cazalet..had been invited to dine with the maire!
a1861 A. H. Clough Poems & Prose Remains (1869) II. 403 Their maire, he said, could neither write nor read.
1900 C. M. Yonge Mod. Broods xiii. 121 She gabbled away most eloquently to the Maire, almost as fluently as a born Frenchwoman.
1955 Times 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.
1964 C. Mackenzie My Life & Times III. i. 31 Monsieur Boeuf the maire, who looked exactly like his name.
1974 S. Sheldon Other Side of Midnight ii. 55 Let's get married by some maire in the country.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

mairen.2

Brit. /ˈmʌɪri/, /ˈmɑːɪreɪ/, U.S. /ˈmaɪri/, New Zealand English /ˈmʌire/, /ˈmɑeri/
Forms: 1800s maide (irregular), 1800s maidi (irregular), 1800s mairi, 1800s maree, 1800s– maire.
Origin: A borrowing from Maori. Etymon: Maori maire.
Etymology: < Maori maire, the name for Olea cunninghamii and other species of Olea, and also occurring as the first element in the names of other trees and shrubs. N.E.D. (1904) gives the pronunciation as (mā·ire) /ˈmɑːire/.
Any of several New Zealand trees with heavy close-grained wood; esp. (a) either of two forest trees of the genus Nestegis (formerly Olea), of the family Oleaceae, N. cunninghamii (more fully black maire), a tall tree with dark wood, and N. lanceolata (more fully white maire); (b) Mida salicifolia, of the family Santalaceae, a forest tree with leathery leaves; (c) Syzygium (formerly Eugenia) maire, of the family Myrtaceae, a tree of swampy ground with edible red berries. Also: the wood of any of these trees.
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1820 T. Kendall & S. Lee Gram. & Vocab. Lang. N.Z. 173 Maide, name of a certain tree.]
1832 London Med. Gaz. 18 Feb. 750/2 It [sc. a New Zealand tree] is named Maire by the natives... The wood..is used in the manufacture of war-clubs, paddles, &c.
1835 W. Yate Acct. N.Z. (ed. 2) 41 Mairi—a tree of the Podocarpus species, growing from forty to sixty feet high.
1838 J. S. Polack New Zealand II. 397 Maire or maide, (cedrus Zelandicae,) is the closest grained and toughest of woods in the country.
1853 J. D. Hooker Bot. Antarctic Voy.: Flora Novæ-Zelandiæ I. 224 Santalum Cunninghamii..Nat. name, ‘Maire’.. . This plant is not the ‘Mida’ of the New Zealander, as Mr Colenso assures me, but the ‘Maire’, and closely resembles Eugenia Maire, the ‘Maire Tawake’.
1875 T. Kirk Rep. Durability N.Z. Timber in N.Z. Govt. Rep. Durability N.Z. Timber 21 Black maire..is sometimes 40 feet high or more.
1882 W. D. Hay Brighter Britain! II. 193 The Maire-Tawhake (Eugenia maire), or ‘White Maire’.
1901 N.Z. Illustr. Mag. 4 596 He cut up a lot of maire backlogs.
1926 J. Devanny Butcher Shop xviii. 222 Ian was seated by a window which looked out upon a near paddock creeping up to a clump of maire.
1969 T. H. Everett Living Trees of World 288/1 The maire (O. cunninghamii) and white maire (O. lanceolata) of New Zealand produce lumber used for cabinetwork, turnery, construction, and railroad cars.
1973 F. Sargeson Once is Enough 63 Miles promised to take me to a part of the bush where the trees were nearly all maire, and there were pigeons feeding in hundreds on the maire berries.
1986 J. T. Salmon Field Guide Native Trees N.Z. 290 The wood of white maire is tough and durable, like that of black maire.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2000; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
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