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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
- High times indeed, if whaling captains were wheeled about the water on castors like gouty old aldermen in patent chairs.Chapters 52-54 — The Albatross; The Gam; The Town-Ho's Story (20% in)
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