† Queenborough mayorn.

Forms: 1600s Quinbrough mayer, 1700s Queenb'rough mayor.

Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Queenborough , mayor n.

Etymology: < Queenborough, the name of a town on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent + mayor n., probably after the eponymous character in Thomas Middleton's play The Mayor of Quinborough (compare quot. a1627).According to N.E.D. (1902) at Mayor, ‘the continued practice of electing mayors in some decayed boroughs..which had become mere villages or hamlets is a common matter of jesting allusion in the literature of the 17th c.’

Obsolete.

A mayor who is attended by the full ceremony of his office, but has no real power or authority.

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a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) iv. i. 47 Lo, I the Mayor of Quinborough by name, With all my Brethren..Are come..To greet thy Grace... For reason of our coming do not look, It must be done, I find it i'th' Town-book.]

1668 R. Wild Iter Boreale 66 [A man] who scarce has Wit..to out-rime a Barber, or prepare An Epitaph to serve a Quinbrough Mayer!

1754 M. Green Spleen (ed. 2) 8 A coquet's April-weather face; A Queenb'rough mayor behind his mace; And fops in military shew, Are sovereign for the case in view.

This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021).

单词	queenborough mayor
释义	† Queenborough mayorn. Forms: 1600s Quinbrough mayer, 1700s Queenb'rough mayor. Origin: From a proper name, combined with an English element. Etymons: proper name Queenborough , mayor n. Etymology: < Queenborough, the name of a town on the Isle of Sheppey, Kent + mayor n., probably after the eponymous character in Thomas Middleton's play The Mayor of Quinborough (compare quot. a1627).According to N.E.D. (1902) at Mayor, ‘the continued practice of electing mayors in some decayed boroughs..which had become mere villages or hamlets is a common matter of jesting allusion in the literature of the 17th c.’ Obsolete. A mayor who is attended by the full ceremony of his office, but has no real power or authority. ΚΠ a1627 T. Middleton Mayor of Quinborough (1661) iv. i. 47 Lo, I the Mayor of Quinborough by name, With all my Brethren..Are come..To greet thy Grace... For reason of our coming do not look, It must be done, I find it i'th' Town-book.] 1668 R. Wild Iter Boreale 66 [A man] who scarce has Wit..to out-rime a Barber, or prepare An Epitaph to serve a Quinbrough Mayer! 1754 M. Green Spleen (ed. 2) 8 A coquet's April-weather face; A Queenb'rough mayor behind his mace; And fops in military shew, Are sovereign for the case in view. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2007; most recently modified version published online September 2021). < n.1668
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