Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In heraldry, the young wild boar, used as a bearing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Her.) A young wild boar.
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- noun A young
wild boar .
Etymologies
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Examples
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This word she imagined must signify something particularly wonderful, since her eyes were compared to it; and being desirous, some time afterwards, to know all the energy of the expression, she asked the meaning of the French word marcassin.
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This word she imagined must signify something particularly wonderful, since her eyes were compared to it; and being desirous, some time afterwards, to know all the energy of the expression, she asked the meaning of the French word marcassin.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Complete Anthony Hamilton 1683
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This word she imagined must signify something particularly wonderful, since her eyes were compared to it; and being desirous, some time afterwards, to know all the energy of the expression, she asked the meaning of the French word marcassin.
The Memoirs of Count Grammont — Volume 05 Anthony Hamilton 1683
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The French called them "marcassin," that is, wild boar's eyes.
Dorothy Vernon of Haddon Hall Charles Major 1884
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It is also one of the very finest things to eat in the world and as “sanglier” and “marcassin,” the latter young boar, is one of the reasons that make Dijon the place that all good eaters hope to go when they die.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It is also one of the very finest things to eat in the world and as “sanglier” and “marcassin,” the latter young boar, is one of the reasons that make Dijon the place that all good eaters hope to go when they die.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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It is also one of the very finest things to eat in the world and as “sanglier” and “marcassin,” the latter young boar, is one of the reasons that make Dijon the place that all good eaters hope to go when they die.
Hemingway on Hunting Ernest Hemingway 2001
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In the first row those killed by the king himself were ranged; and he numbered forty-six roe-bucks, and one _marcassin_
The Mirror of Literature, Amusement, and Instruction Volume 13, No. 354, January 31, 1829 Various
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I was rather taken aback, particularly when the master of the house told me not to be afraid, it was only a marcassin (small wild boar), who had been born on the place, and was as quiet as a kitten.
Chateau and Country Life in France Mary Alsop King Waddington
hernesheir commented on the word marcassin
Here piggy piggy.
December 11, 2012
qms commented on the word marcassin
The hunter’s a kind of assassin
Whose keen eye will fatally fasten
On sanglier young
Who, killed, are then flung
In pots for a meal of marcassin.
October 25, 2017