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Mayoress

The wife of a mayor.

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Mayor 76% connected

The chief magistrate of a city or borough; the chief officer of a municipal corporation. In some American cities there is a city court of which the m…

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Wife 76% connected

A woman; an adult female; -- now used in literature only in certain compounds and phrases, as alewife, fishwife, goodwife, and the like.

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Woman 76% connected

An adult female person; a grown-up female person, as distinguished from a man or a child; sometimes, any female person.

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