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MARCHES
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
A region in central Italy
Synonyms:
Marche; Marches
Classified under:
Nouns denoting spatial position
Instance hypernyms:
Italian region (Italy is divided into 20 regions for administrative purposes)
Holonyms ("Marches" is a part of...):
Italia; Italian Republic; Italy (a republic in southern Europe on the Italian Peninsula; was the core of the Roman Republic and the Roman Empire between the 4th century BC and the 5th century AD)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Present simple (third person singular) of the verb march
Context examples:
Now, the garden separated the Marches' house from that of Mr. Laurence.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
A happy day it would be for the Seneschal of Auvergne when they should learn that the last yew bow was over the marches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Every one liked Laurie, and he privately informed his tutor that "the Marches were regularly splendid girls."
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
What Alleyne saw and wondered at in Hampshire would have appealed equally to the traveller in any other English county from the Channel to the marches of Scotland.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
So Laurie did his best, and sang delightfully, being in a particularly lively humor, for to the Marches he seldom showed the moody side of his character.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
By my soul! as long as I am seneschal of Aquitaine I will find enough to do in guarding the marches which you have entrusted to me.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Peeping through the meshes of the hammock, he saw the Marches coming out, as if bound on some expedition.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
When they can bend my war-bow, and bring down a squirrel at a hundred paces, I send them to take service under Johnny Copeland, the Lord of the Marches and Governor of Carlisle.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The Duke's Daughter paid the butcher's bill, A Phantom Hand put down a new carpet, and the Curse of the Coventrys proved the blessing of the Marches in the way of groceries and gowns.
(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)
From Providence to Burgundy we are beset by every prowling hireling in Christendom, who rend and tear the country which you have left too weak to guard her own marches.
(The White Company, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
