mayoral
Language: English
Part of speech: noun
Pronunciation: ipa: /meɪˈɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɛə.ɹəl/
ipa: /mɛːɹəl/
ipa: /meɪˈɔ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ə.ɹəl/
ipa: /mɛːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
ipa: /ˌmɑːjə(ʊ)ˈral/
ipa: /ˌmɑjəˈrɑl/
ipa: /meɪˈɔː.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmɛə.ɹəl/
ipa: /mɛːɹəl/
ipa: /meɪˈɔ.ɹəl/
ipa: /ˈmeɪ.ə.ɹəl/
ipa: /mɛːɹəl/
rhymes: -ɔːɹəl
Forms: form: mayorals
Etymology: From Spanish mayoral.
Senses: examples: text: A thrust of the lance, and the mayoral says bullring or slaughterhouse.
ref: 1972, Stephen Marlowe, “Only Goya”, in Colossus: A Novel about Goya and a World Gone Mad, New York, N.Y.: The Macmillan Company, →LCCN, book 5, page 363:
text: The mayoral was dressed in much the same fashion as the other men but instead of a lance he carried a short braided quirt to emphasize his almost feudal authority. As overseer of the ranch, his commands were limited to monosyllables; more frequently, he merely gestured with the quirt.
ref: 1974, William Hjortsberg, “Miércoles”, in Toro! Toro! Toro!, New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →ISBN, page 45:
text: From the moment the owner and the mayoral decide to call him to the plaza the bull’s life becomes a long succession of shutters and chutes; […]
ref: 1976, Doddy Hay, “The Toro Bravo”, in The Bullfight, London: New English Library, →ISBN, page 19, column 1:
glosses: A Spanish-speaking overseer of a bull ranch.
examples: text: The mayoral who oversees the band, / Before me now is standing, whip in hand, / The straw-hat slouching o’er his olive face, / Sturdy in figure, active in his pace; / Nor coat nor waistcoat incommode his breast.
ref: 1840, [Juan Francisco Manzano], translated by R[ichard] R[obert] Madden, “The Sugar Estate”, in Poems by a Slave in the Island of Cuba, Recently Liberated; […], London: Thomas Ward and Co., […], canto II, page 40:
text: All mayorals of this country, wear a sword about four feet long; and ride about the estate on horse back. […] The counter mayorals are only allowed a whip. They, too, as soon as promoted, with whip in hand assume a bearing and deportment towards their fellows that are cruel and sometimes barbarous; always singing out at the top of their voice. ‘Apresuran! Apresuran!’ (hasten, hasten,) and afterwards laying the whip on the backs of those that do not work as they think they ought.
ref: 1842 August 6, Republicano [pseudonym], “Two Months on a Sugar Plantation in Cuba”, in Massachusetts Ploughman, volume 1, number 45, Boston, Mass., page [4], column 5:
text: When the denunciation shall have for object to reveal a talking together, or the project of some attempt by a slave or free man against the owner, his wife, son, parents, administrator or mayoral of the estate, the owner is recommended to use generosity towards the servant or servants who have so well fulfilled the duties of faithful and good servants, on account of its so much interesting them to offer a stimulus to fidelity.
ref: 1842 November 28, “Regulations respecting Slaves”, in Correspondence with British Commissioners and with Foreign Powers Relative to the Slave Trade [Class A and B] (Irish University Press Series of British Parliamentary Papers), number 23, Shannon, County Clare: Irish University Press, published 1969, →ISBN, page 223:
text: Wurdemann gave an interesting account of the consequences of a suicide which he witnessed in mid-nineteenth-century Cuba. A Cuban doctor left a suicide note with the mayoral of the estate which Wurdemann was visiting, then drove off the estate and killed himself. Although the suicide note absolved the mayoral of any guilt in connection with the doctor’s death, the mayoral concealed the note from the public officer so that he would not be brought within the clutches of the law.
ref: 1971, Gwendolyn Midlo Hall, “Suicide among Slaves”, in Social Control in Slave Plantation Societies: A Comparison of St. Domingue and Cuba (The Johns Hopkins University Studies in Historical and Political Science; 89th series, number 1), Baltimore, Md.; London: The Johns Hopkins Press, →ISBN, section II (The Problem of the Survival of the Slave Population), footnote 38, pages 21–22:
text: Kenneth Routon (2006) shares an interview with a Brillumba practitioner who speaks about the history of the Rama: […] A black Congo slave from the Carabali tribe, in a moment of rage killed the mayoral. He was tired of his abuse and so he took his machete from him and severed his head.
ref: 2015, Tony M. Kail, “Palo Mayombe and Bantu traditions (Las Reglas de Congo)”, in Narco-Cults: Understanding the Use of Afro-Caribbean and Mexican Religious Cultures in the Drug Wars, Boca Raton, Fla.: CRC Press, →ISBN, pages 120–121:
glosses: A Spanish-speaking overseer of an estate’s slaves.