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Marches

//ˈmɑɹt͡ʃɪz// name, noun, verb

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Proper Noun
  1. 1
    plural of March form-of, plural
  2. 2
    Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
  3. 3
    The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.

    "A good example is Wales and the Marches where most of the great landlords were absentees who, by the mid-fifteenth century, had allowed their administrative and judicial powers to slip into the hands of a corrupt squirearchy."

  4. 4
    The lands in the vicinity of the Scottish-English border.

    "[…] sets forth the romantic story of 'the Laws of the Marches,' […] if a quarrel takes place on the Marches between the two countries [and someone dies], his body shall be brought to the Marches at the day and place within the appointed parts, […]"

Noun
  1. 1
    plural of march form-of, plural

    "They settled in the border marches."

Verb
  1. 1
    third-person singular simple present indicative of march form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person

Etymology

See march (“border area”).

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