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marquess
/ˈmɑɹ.kwɪs/
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What does marquess mean?
noun
- A title of nobility for a man ranking beneath a duke and above an earl (count).
More meanings (1)
noun
- (obsolete) Synonym of marchioness, a female marquess.
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Know, my loving lord, The Marquess Dorset, as I hear, is fled To Richmond, in the parts where he abides.
The Marquess of Worcester had done all of this more than a century earlier.
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But, that we might not scape scot-free, the Marquess of Pescara having laid siege to Genoa, where Duke Ottaviano Fregosa commanded under our protection, and the articles betwixt them being so far advanced that it was looked upon as a done thing, and upon the point to be concluded, the Spaniards in the meantime having slipped in, made use of this treachery as an absolute victory.
The king, however, having acquired Lombardy, regained at once the authority which Charles had lost: Genoa yielded; the Florentines became his friends; the Marquess of Mantua, the Duke of Ferrara, the Bentivogli, my lady of Forli, the Lords of Faenza, of Pesaro, of Rimini, of Camerino, of Piombino, the Lucchese, the Pisans, the Sienese—everybody made advances to him to become his friend.