Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun An obsolete form of
marten .
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Examples
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+ (6) Mont-martre, where, according to the chronicle written in 836 by Abbot Hilduin, St. Denis was executed;
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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At one moment I might be at Mont-martre, and at another in the Quartier Latin, calling on
My Days of Adventure The Fall of France, 1870-71 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly 1887
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Among those who had rushed to listen to the Baron's impassioned eloquence was Helene Cecille Stille, now the proprietress of the handsomest hotel on the Rue Mont-martre.
Danger! A True History of a Great City's Wiles and Temptations The Veil Lifted, and Light Thrown on Crime and its Causes, and Criminals and their Haunts. Facts and Disclosures. Abraham H. Hummel 1887
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For the single Osama Ben Ladin you have made into a martre, in the last two months alone you have created by unknown forces 100 or perhaps a 1000 more Osama Ben Ladins, and if not that in your intrinisc fabric you retain the social genealogy of future conflicts, contradictions, discord, and follies so good luck enjoy matters while you can.
latimes.com - News 2011
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Son vêtement étoit, selon l'usage, une robe de satin cramoisi, par-dessus laquelle il en avoit, comme manteau, une autre de satin vert à figures, fourrée de martre zibeline.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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Son habillement étoit une robe de velours cramoisi, fourrée de martre zibeline, et sur la tête il portoit, comme les Turcs, un chapeau rouge; mais, pour se garantir de la pluie, par-dessus sa robe il en avoit mis une autre de velours, en guise de manteau, selon la mode du pays.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III Richard Hakluyt 1584
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閠oit une robe de velours cramoisi, fourr閑 de martre zibeline, et sur la t阾e il portoit, comme les Turcs, un chapeau rouge; mais, pour se garantir de la pluie, par-dessus sa robe il en avoit mis une autre de velours, en guise de manteau, selon la mode du pays.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Son v阾ement 閠oit, selon l’usage, une robe de satin cramoisi, par-dessus laquelle il en avoit, comme manteau, une autre de satin vert � figures, fourr閑 de martre zibeline.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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sns-rt-people-us-france-martre7124ur-20110203 PARIS Reuters - French actress Maria Schneider, whose role as Marlon Brando's lover in "Last Tango in Paris" won her lifelong fame but also an image that she found difficult to shake off, has died.
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With tiie nmdue of the immense qoantil j of gold Mod ulirer, be buiit many churches od his re - toni from Spain; namely, of the blessed Virgm in Aix la ChapeUe, of St.James in Tbonlouse, and another in Gascony, between the city commonly call - ed Aix, after the model of St. John's at Cordova, in the Jacobine road; the church likewise of St. James at Paris, between the river Seine and Mont - martre, besides founding innumerable abbies in all parts of the world.
History of Charles the Great and Orlando, Thomas Rodd 1812
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