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Among the runners-up this year: the supermarket company Carrefour which changed the name of its Champion chain of stores to Carrefour Market, as in not the French word "marche".
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I said just now "this dance," but, strictly speaking, the polonaise, which has been called a marche dansante, is not so much a dance as a figured walk, or procession, full of gravity and a certain courtly etiquette.
Frederic Chopin as a Man and Musician Niecks, Frederick 1888
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He has qualities of the mind that put him above the reach of these misfortunes; and if reduced, as perhaps he may, to the 'marche' of
Complete Project Gutenberg Earl of Chesterfield Works Philip Dormer Stanhope Chesterfield 1733
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So in between the relentless sun that beats here in season and the saving of baby seals, she is mercilessly weathered, so it's better to see her in the exhibition than in the marche, the outdoor market where she comes to shop.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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So in between the relentless sun that beats here in season and the saving of baby seals, she is mercilessly weathered, so it's better to see her in the exhibition than in the marche, the outdoor market where she comes to shop.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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Prix-fixe menus €33 vegetarian, €38 and €48; average à la carte €60Ever since Chicago-born chef Daniel Rose moved from the 9th arrondissement to a renovated 17th-century house in Les Halles in July 2010, he's been playing to a packed house with his inventive cuisine du marche menu.
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Une grande roue en Inde qui ne marche pas à l'aide d'un moteur mais à l'aide de la force humaine.
Grande roue indienne The Nag 2009
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So in between the relentless sun that beats here in season and the saving of baby seals, she is mercilessly weathered, so it's better to see her in the exhibition than in the marche, the outdoor market where she comes to shop.
Gwen Davis: You Can't Go Home Again but You Can Come Back to St. Tropez Gwen Davis 2010
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Et ne meme pas mentioner le fait que depuis cinq siecles l 'afrique a servi de marche pied a la revolution industriele occidentale, de l'esclavage a nos jours, quand il n'a pas hesite a remonter jusqu'au moyen-age pour rendre hommage a la contribution des arabes a la civilisation mondiale?!
Global Voices in English » Obama’s Ghana Speech Underwhelms 2009
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Sculpture at auction did well in 2010, led by Alberto Giacometti's "L'homme qui marche I" 1960, a bronze figure of a lonely man walking, which last February at Sotheby's London, fetched a record £ 65 million for sculpture.
Making a Big Impression Margaret Studer 2011
chained_bear commented on the word marche
"Firearms and fur-trading capitalism revolutionized the use of dogs in the north, the proof of which is still evident every time a dog musher says 'mush.' French Canadian fur trappers in the service of the Hudson's Bay Company recognized how useful the dog traction of the Eskimos would be on a trapline. They hooked up their dog teams to toboggans and sleds, and commanded them to go in French, shouting 'Marche!' or 'Marchons!' which was gradually corrupted to 'Mush!' The trappers taught the Athabaskans to mush dogs and the Indians readily adopted dog traction as a superior method of moving faster and farther about the forest. Previously the Athabaskans had only small 'pack' dogs, not sled dogs. But packing with a single dog was not nearly as efficient as sledding with a team of dogs; the new weapons and new demands of trading made the vast leap from packing to sledding inevitable."
--Gay Salisbury and Laney Salisbury, <i>The Cruelest Miles: The Heroic Story of Dogs and Men in a Race against an Epidemic</i> (NY and London: W.W. Norton & Co., 2003), 131
January 24, 2017