- plural of marchesa.
marchese
Americannoun
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marchesi
plural
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of marchese
From Italian, dating back to 1510–20; see origin at marquis
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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
Only this year a marchese told me that he "could not admit that animals feel."
From Rome by Hope Malleson
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
I helped the surgeon carry him to his coach, then walked to my lodging, leaving the marchese astare at the trees.
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
It is perfectly possible that the marchese may return from Padua to-morrow night, and what should we do then?
From Stories By English Authors: Italy (Selected by Scribners) by Laurence Oliphant
And herded with thieves, and taken them for marchesi?
From The Fool Errant Being the Memoirs of Francis-Anthony Strelley, Esq., Citizen of Lucca by Maurice Henry Hewlett
Four marquesses and these only the marquesses Patrizi, Theodoli, Costaguti and Cavalieri enjoy the princes' right to the canopy above their shield and are hence called the marchesi di baldacchino.
From Rome by Hope Malleson
They are assisted by white curly poodles, with pink shaven legs, solemn faces and long ears, which make them look like old Paduan marchesi in powdered wigs.
From Lippincott's Magazine of Popular Literature and Science, Volume 20, September, 1877. by Various
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