- mayoralty
- mayoralty late 14c., mairaltee "office of a mayor" (mid-15c. as "tenure of a mayor"), from M.Fr. mairalt&\#233, from maire (see MAYOR (Cf. mayor)) + -alte, as in principalte, reformed in English as -alty.
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