Lexicographical Neighbors of Maires
Literary usage of Maires
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journals Kept in France and Italy from 1848 to 1852: With a Sketch of the by Nassau William Senior (1871)
"The other was the giving the nomination of the maires, now elected, to the Executive.
On this they disagreed. 'There are 32000 of them/ said Faucher : ..."
2. Chambers's Encyclopædia: A Dictionary of Universal Knowledge for the People by Ephraim Chambers (1870)
"The welfare of these children is superintended by the curés, the maires, and the
sanitary officers of the commune. Foundlings, luna- tica, the blind, deaf, ..."
3. The Reign of Henry VII from Contemporary Sources by Albert Frederick Pollard (1914)
"afore that tyme have ben maires and hai Hies of the 1489. same, and the same
persones, or part of theym, from tyme to tyme herafter to chaunge, ..."
4. The Historic Note-book: With an Appendix of Battles by Ebenezer Cobham Brewer (1891)
"maires du Palais. 'Majores domus,' officers of the crown who had at one time
charge of the administration of the privy purse of the king and the general ..."
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