marquesses

variants or marquises or marquis
Definition of marquessesnext
plural of marquess

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Noun
  • After Baelor’s funeral, Maekar asks Dunk to serve under him and take his son Egg (Dexter Sol Ansell) as his squire, but Dunk says he’s done with princes after all this.
    Jordan Moreau, Variety, 23 Feb. 2026
  • Britain’s King George V changed the family name from Saxe-Coburg and Gotha to Windsor in 1917, and initiated legislation to strike out the titles of princes and lords who had backed the Germans.
    ABC News, ABC News, 22 Feb. 2026
Noun
  • Turning to Yasmin, there are so many biographical parallels between her and Ghislaine Maxwell — their dads being publishing barons who had fatal accidents on their boats.
    Alison Herman, Variety, 2 Mar. 2026
  • As written, these bills strip away the remaining local input on large projects, leaving nothing in the way of the wealthy, land barons and non-Floridian developers.
    Katherine Sayler, The Orlando Sentinel, 1 Mar. 2026
Noun
  • Brett Michael Dadig of Whitehall Borough pleaded guilty last week to 11 counts of cyberstalking, interstate stalking, and interstate threats, the United States Attorney's Office for the Western District of Pennsylvania said in a news release.
    Michael Guise, CBS News, 24 Mar. 2026
  • She was arrested on two counts of criminally negligent homicide, according to Erath County jail records, and her bail was set at $29,000.
    Jamie Landers, Dallas Morning News, 23 Mar. 2026
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“Marquesses.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marquesses. Accessed 31 Mar. 2026.

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