Marquette
[mahr-ket; for 1 also French mar-ket]
- Jacques [zhahk] /ʒɑk/Père Marquette, 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
- a city in N Michigan, on Lake Superior.
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Contemporary Examples
A former superintendent of Milwaukee schools, he is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University.
An earlier Marquette Law School poll showed a tighter race, but with Burke again easily beating Walker by 18 points among women.
In 2006, when I was a visiting professor at Marquette, I found an envelope with the Esquire emblem on it in my campus mailbox.
And there was a Marquette poll (PDF) of Wisconsin two weeks ago that had a plus-8 Democratic skew.
This new Marquette University poll of Wisconsin, for example, showing Obama up 54-40 looks odd to me.
Historical Examples
The autograph map (by Marquette) of the Mississippi, as discovered by him.
That river, to this day, bears the name of the lamented Marquette.
Old MackinawW. P. Strickland.
They send to Marquette an aggregate of one thousand tons per week.
Old MackinawW. P. Strickland.
The Marquette Journal gives some items relative to the winter of that locality.
Old MackinawW. P. Strickland.
The Marquette family had been illustrious in France from time immemorial.
Marquette
- Jacques (ʒak), known as Père Marquette. 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer, with Louis Jolliet, of the Mississippi river
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