marquise

Example Sentences

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Its former elegance is such that local lore says it used to belong to a marquise.

From Seattle Times • Oct. 18, 2023

Front and center are the organization’s three Lombardi Trophies, each with a marquise diamond set atop.

From Washington Times • Jun. 16, 2023

The details made Warner wonder who the marquise, who goes by Camille and is played by Australian Alice Englert in the series, was before.

From Reuters • Nov. 2, 2022

In the end, it awarded Cocherel’s daughter, a newly married marquise, average annual payments of 1,450 francs, or about $280 in the 1860s, for dozens of years, according to government publications of the commission’s decisions.

From New York Times • May 20, 2022

The mere sight of the wide opened violet eyes of the marquise, with their eloquent depth of ineffable sadness, acted on her nerves as the flag of the toreador does upon the bull.

From The Maid of Honour, Vol. 1 (of 3) A Tale of the Dark Days of France by Wingfield, Lewis