marquis
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Hilton agrees to concede defeat when Villaraigosa promises to make him the marquis of Huntington Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
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.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
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.
From Seattle Times ● Jul. 15, 2022
Daly presented her with a five-carat marquis diamond ring.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 20, 2020
L’Hôpital was so enthralled by the new mathematics that he persuaded Bernoulli to send him all Bernoulli’s new mathematical discoveries for the marquis to use as he desired, in return for cash.
From "Zero: The Biography of a Dangerous Idea" by Charles Seife
“If those marquises came back to life and saw this house, they would surely die again,” joked Elayne Clavel, 26, wife of musician Villa.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
He became a close friend of counts, marquises and businesspeople, too.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2014
The list was spattered with landowners, containing 11 dukes, six marquises, 14 earls and nine viscounts.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2013
After the war, the Porters plunged headlong into Europe's melting pot of millionaires and marquises.
From Time Magazine Archive
There are neither dukes nor marquises here, neither princesses nor ballet-dancers!
From The Dodd Family Abroad, Vol. I by Lever, Charles James
