marquis : Idioms & Phrases

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don marquis

  • noun humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
    Don Marquis; Marquis.
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donald robert perry marquis

  • noun humorist who wrote about the imaginary life of cockroaches (1878-1937)
    Don Marquis; Marquis.
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iles marquises

  • noun a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
    Marquesas Islands.
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marquis de condorcet

  • noun French mathematician and philosopher (1743-1794)
    Condorcet; Marie Jean Antoine Nicolas Caritat.
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marquis de lafayette

  • noun French soldier who served under George Washington in the American Revolution (1757-1834)
    La Fayette; Marie Joseph Paul Yves Roch Gilbert du Motier; Lafayette.
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marquis de laplace

  • noun French mathematician and astronomer who formulated the nebular hypothesis concerning the origins of the solar system and who developed the theory of probability (1749-1827)
    Pierre Simon de Laplace; Laplace.
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marquis de sade

  • noun French soldier and writer whose descriptions of sexual perversion gave rise to the term `sadism' (1740-1814)
    Comte Donatien Alphonse Francois de Sade; de Sade; Sade.
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second marquis of rockingham

  • noun English statesman who served as prime minister and who opposed the war with the American colonies (1730-1782)
    Rockingham; Charles Watson-Wentworth.
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