Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
marquee .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
marquee .
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- noun Archaic form of
marquee .
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Examples
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Thank Heaven, the Hazeldeans of Hazeldean were never tuft - hunters and title-mongers; and if I never ran after an English lord, I should certainly be devilishly ashamed of a brother-in-law whom I was forced to call markee or count!
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Thank Heaven, the Hazeldeans of Hazeldean were never tuft-hunters and title-mongers; and if I never ran after an English lord, I should certainly be devilishly ashamed of a brother-in-law whom I was forced to call markee or count!
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How do I know if you own the ship even, or that the charter ain't busted long ago, or that you're being libelled ashore right now, or that you won't dump me on any old beach anywheres without a soo-markee of what's comin 'to me?
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Then I carefully searched every pocket, and the result was the startling knowledge that I hadn't a 'sou markee' to my name.
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One sits on a magnificent markee-covered, glass-enclosed terrace, overlooking the Thames with its ever-changing scenes of fussy tugs and squat barges.
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They let our blessed "Texas civilization" take care of itself, while they agonized over a job lot of lazy negroes whose souls ain't worth a sou-markee in blocks of five; who wouldn't walk into heaven if the gates were wide open, but once inside would steal the eternal throne if it wasn't spiked down.
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How do I know if you own the ship even, or that the charter ain't busted long ago, or that you're being libelled ashore right now, or that you won't dump me on any old beach anywheres without a soo-markee of what's comin 'to me?
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"Not a sous markee," he added, clinking some coins in his pocket.
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"Not a sous markee," he added, clinking some coins in his pocket.
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"I'll bet he's got nothing more than what he went away with, and that wasn't a sou markee!"
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