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Mayor

the chief magistrate of a city or corporate town.

MAYOTTE (mä-yot'), or MAYOTTA (mä-yot'tä), an island in the Indian Ocean, one of the Comoros, at the N. E. entrance of the Mozambique Channel, and a French colony; length, about 30 miles; breadth, 20 miles; area, 140 square miles; pop. about 15,000. Some of its volcanic peaks are nearly 2,000 feet high.

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