Crossword-Solution: AVOYER
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Avoyer | n. | A chief magistrate of a free imperial city or canton of Switzerland. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| former Swiss magistrate | 1 answer |
| Magistracy | 53 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
The superficial contents of any figure; the surface included
within any given lines; superficial extent; as, the area of a square or
a triangle.
Hint 2 anagram
RAEA
Hint 3 another clue
CERTAIN BRAIN SIZE
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Sentences with AVOYER (5)
The role of mediator, filled with distinction by his successors, was first assigned to Count Pierre III, who as avoyer of Fribourg at that time allied with Austria, was empowered to arbitrate the differences which arose between the houses of Savoy and Hapsburg.
This daring and sacrilegious act led Frederick--the hereditary avoyer of the abbey--to place the Waldstaette under the further punishment of the "ban of the empire." Both these sentences were alike fruitless in bringing the peasants to submission to the house of Austria.
The Sieur d’Englisberg, avoyer of Friburg, possessed vineyards on the shores of the Lake of Geneva, and was gathering his grapes at La Vaux.
They gave him a seat on the right of the avoyer, which was the place of honour, and the sitting being opened, the Genevan rose and said: ‘Most honoured lords, there is a town situated at the natural limits of Switzerland--a town entirely devoted to you, where you can come and go just as at home, where you can bargain, sell, and buy whatever you require, and which would be able to stop your enemies, if ever the League should be attacked from the south.
The horseman intrusted with the message departed, and, on his arrival at Friburg, delivered the letters to the avoyer.