Definition of Marchesas

1. marchesa [n] - See also: marchesa

Lexicographical Neighbors of Marchesas

march to a different drummer
march to one's own drum
march to one's own drummer
march to the beat of a different drum
march to the beat of a different drummer
march to the beat of one's own drum
march to the beat of one's own drummer
marchand de vin
marchand de vin sauce
marched
marched upon
marchen
marcher
marchers
marchesa
marchesas (current term)
marchese
marcheses
marchesi
marcheth
marchiafava-bignami disease
marching
marching ants
marching band
marching bands
marching music
marching order
marching orders
marchings
marchion-ess

Literary usage of Marchesas

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1820)
"... unpublished letters of Lady Mary, which gave us some insight into her habits of life m Italy. She admitted the occasional visits of a few marchesas and ..."

2. Macmillan's Magazine by David Masson, John Morley, Mowbray Morris, George Grove (1862)
"... the most learned and cultivated physician, or the most charming wife of a judge, finds him or herself in an evening party of ducas and marchesas, ..."

3. Margaret Fuller: A Psychological Biography by Katharine Susan Anthony (1920)
"But Margaret must have known how numerous marchesas were in Italy, and that her mercenary, lying landlady in the Piazzo Barberini was a marchesa ; and, ..."

4. The London Magazine by John Scott, John Taylor (1824)
"... marchesas, whom Leporello enumerates in his Catalogo. The same coarseness was more apparent in his representation of the Count A/HUI ¡'im, ..."

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