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
At the request of Les Modes, a French fashion magazine, Boldini’s painting of the marchesa was exhibited at the couturier Jacques Doucet’s fashion house in Paris, with his creations displayed around it.
From New York Times ● Mar. 14, 2018
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 wife is soon marking time with an Italian movie director, and the writer dillydallies with a local marchesa who wickedly dots her toes with perfume.
From Time Magazine Archive
Yet the marchesa was perhaps no more anxious than either of the others to have Giovanni bear off the American prize.
From The Title Market by J. H. Gardner Soper
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
He thinks that I know too much about him, and has told the marchese that I am here.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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
Had she been in danger of the marchese?
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Now Colombina is the beloved sister of Brighella; and the doubt is to dawn upon him that possibly his wonderful contessa and his sister's imposing marchese are no better than they should be.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
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