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Definition of Marquises
1. marquis [n] - See also: marquis
Lexicographical Neighbors of Marquises
Literary usage of Marquises
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Lombard Communes: A History of the Republics of North Italy by William Francis Thomas Butler (1906)
"Of minor princes, such as the Marquises of Saluzzo, of Ceva, of Carretto, ...
The Marquises of Montferrat were the most powerful of all the feudal lords in ..."
2. Commentaries on the Laws of England by William Blackstone, William Carey Jones (1915)
"Marquises.—A marquise, marchio, is the next degree of nobility. His office formerly
was (for dignity and duty were never separated by our ancestors) to ..."
3. Matthew Paris's English History: From the Year 1235 to 1273 by Matthew Paris, John Allen Giles (1853)
"... as their leaders, and made a most bloody war against the king of England and
his marquises, forgetting their charters and their oaths. ..."
4. Political Dictionary: Forming a Work of Universal Reference, Both by Charles Knight (1846)
"Charles I. advanced the earls of Hertford, Worcester, and Newcastle to be marquises
of those places ; aiid Henry Pierrepoint, earl of Kingston, ..."
5. Traditions of Edinburgh by Robert Chambers (1847)
"THE town mansion of the Marquises of Tweeddale was one of large extent and
dimensions, in a court which still bears the title of that family, ..."
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