marchesa
Americannoun
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marchese
plural
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an Italian noblewoman, equivalent in rank to a marquise.
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the wife or widow of a marchese.
noun
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Etymology
Origin of marchesa
1790–1800; < Italian; feminine of marchese
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There, he struck up an unlikely romance with an heiress, Camilla Pecci Blunt, the daughter of a Florentine marchesa and an American financier.
From New York Times ● Jul. 12, 2022
Perhaps the marchesa, whose blackened eyes, bejeweled costumes and silent stance mesmerize the fashion world to this day, might have her own label, not just one named for her.
From New York Times ● Oct. 11, 2017
The place is run by the marchesa, Maria Xenia Doria, an extremely down-to-earth woman who operates the hotel and 370-acre farm.
From New York Times ● Mar. 6, 2015
They are herded, shooed and advised, but never chaperoned, by a sophisticated marchesa.
From Time Magazine Archive
She saw herself so clearly as the marchesa.
From Mortal Coils by Aldous Huxley
A Florentine marchese with a pedigree dating to Donatello, the designer, artist, sportsman, politician and resort-hopper has etched his name into the fashion lexicon of the decade.
From Time Magazine Archive
It lasted all one summer, but she was turned of sixteen by then, and her father, the marchese, wished her to marry.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
We then walked on together—I on the inside, next to me the count, the marchese on the outside.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
"The ballet is very important to-night," Nina heard the marchese saying to the Princess Sansevero.
From The Title Market by J. H. Gardner Soper
Of these flacons there are two sets of drawings, one in a codex of marchese Raffaelli di Cingoli, f.
From Pagan and Christian Rome by Rodolfo Amedeo Lanciani
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