meres

The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called meres vocales because they have a voice in the chapter.

Les Miserables 2008

The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called meres vocales because they have a voice in the chapter.

Les Miserables, Volume II, Cosette 1862

The prioress is elected for three years by the mothers, who are called meres vocales because they have a voice in the chapter.

Les Misérables Victor Hugo 1843

The area over which he walked, and which for thousands of years has been divided by "meres" and boundary stones, is now to be enclosed, and so will lose its archaeological claims to interest.

Autobiography of Seventy Years, Vol. 1-2 George Frisbie Hoar 1865

And now mist and darkness threaten Johnson's attempt to visit the 27 lakes,  meres and waters of the Lake District in under 24 hours to help raise money for the Cystic Fibrosis Trust.

Country diary: Lake District 2010

While the first on Beowulf is quite good, though there's a bit too much lunatic fringe about it and looking meaningfully into meres and the like.

Archive 2009-06-01 Miglior acque 2009

While the first on Beowulf is quite good, though there's a bit too much lunatic fringe about it and looking meaningfully into meres and the like.

Getting Medieval on the BBC Miglior acque 2009

It is an area of three related habitats: bayous, meres and backwaters dry for three months every year, usually flooded basins (cuvettes) and irregularly flooded alluvial plains.

Djoudj National Bird Sanctuary, Senegal 2008

Vendredi je risque de travailler chez madame K. car avec la fete des meres elle est un peu debordé ... mais elle ne m'appelera pas samedi ... ca c sur mais pour les autres jours la il y a toutes les chances qu'elle m'appelle.

pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

Bran roared, maddened, "with its monster-haunted meres, its foul witch-women, and its lost caverns and subterranean realms where spawn in the darkness shapes of Hell!"

Wings in the Night Howard, Robert E. 2006