MARQUIS Definition & Meaning

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marquis

[ mahr-kwis, mahr-kee; French mar-kee ]

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noun

plural marquises marquis

a nobleman ranking next below a duke and above an earl or count.

Marquis

[ mahr-kwis ]

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noun

Don(ald Robert Perry), 1878–1937, U.S. humorist and poet.

Marquis

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MarquisDon(ald Robert Perry)18781937MUSWRITING: humorous writer Don ( ald Robert Perry ). 1878–1937, US humorist; author of archy and mehitabel (1927)

marquis

/ ˈ��ɑː��ɪ��; marki; mɑːˈkiː /

noun

(in various countries) a nobleman ranking above a count, corresponding to a British marquess. The title of marquis is often used in place of that of marquess

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�y��vlog History and Origins

Origin of marquis¹

1250–1300; Middle English markis < Middle French marquis < Italian marchese < Medieval Latin *( ��ǳ�ŧ�� ) marc ( h ) ŧ�Բ�� (count) of a borderland. See march ², -ese

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Origin of marquis¹

C14: from Old French marchis, literally: count of the march, from marche march ²

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A 2005 biography of Bradford suggested she was indeed descended from lofty stock by way of her mother, who was, it said, the illegitimate daughter of a marquis.

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He was a minor nobleman, in fact—a marquis.

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What keeps the whole thing from drifting completely off into the ether is how Mrs. Harris and the marquis bond over the loss of a loved one.”

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What keeps the whole thing from drifting completely off into the ether is how Mrs. Harris and the marquis bond over the loss of a loved one.

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Cocherel had been singled out by the Baron de Vastey in his treatise on the horrors of slavery, but in flowing handwriting, the commissioner’s note taker recorded the marquis’s losses with bureaucratic dispassion:

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