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a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) in some towns and cities in the U.S., Canada and Australia

aldermen usually represent city wards

Mary Whitney said she [Mrs. Parkinson] ought to have been the Alderman herself, as she was the better man.
Margaret Atwood -- Alias Grace

alderman = a member of a municipal legislative body (as a city council) in some towns and cities in the U.S., Canada and Australia

'That is very true,' says Mr. Alderman, and turning to the fellow that stopped me, he asked him if it was true that I knocked with my foot?
Daniel Defoe -- Moll Flanders
Every man, from the Tammany alderman to the Austrian house-painter, finds that he is entitled to his opinion.
Clement Greenberg -- Avant-garde and Kitsch
A puritan may go to his brown-bread crust with as gross an appetite as ever an alderman to his turtle.
Henry David Thoreau -- Walden
] [Enter the LORD MAYOR, ALDERMEN, and Citizens.
William Shakespeare -- The Life and Death of King Richard III
I asked him again now, but he was leaning on the counter in his shirt-sleeves having a deep goster with Alderman Cowley.
James Joyce -- Dubliners
High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.
Herman Melville -- Moby Dick
Do you know that Alderman Wilson, the man who says such damning things about us, has a father who is an Anglican clergyman?
Joy Kogawa -- Obasan
"What's this, Henchard," said Alderman Tubber, applying his thumb to the corn-factor like a cheese-taster.
Thomas Hardy -- The Mayor of Casterbridge
The aldermen of the city give a fete on the third of October.
Alexandre Dumas -- The Three Musketeers
It reminded me of something I had read in my youth about the ingenious way in which the aldermen of London raised the money that built the Mansion House.
Mark Twain -- A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court
Of course a fellow has got to start in modestly, but I may say, sotto voce, that I expect to run for alderman next fall.
Sinclair Lewis -- Arrowsmith
One onlooker was a former alderman, James H. Hildreth.
Jim Murphy -- The Great Fire
"A fool by right of descent," answered the Jester; "I am Wamba, the son of Witless, who was the son of Weatherbrain, who was the son of an Alderman."
Sir Walter Scott -- Ivanhoe
You remember, Ed, you, too, Mac—the boys was going to nominate me for Alderman.
Eugene O'Neill -- The Iceman Cometh
On one occasion recently a local aldermanic junket had been arranged to visit Philadelphia—a junket that was to last ten days.
Theodore Dreiser -- Sister Carrie
An alderman about to be mayor must by-and-by enlarge his dinner-parties, but at present there were plenty of guests at his well-spread table.
George Eliot -- Middlemarch
When the next generation, with its more modern ideas, became mayors and aldermen, this arrangement created some little dissatisfaction.
William Faulkner -- A Rose for Emily
One might bring one's self to announce aldermen and burgomasters, but a hosier was too much.
Victor Hugo -- The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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