| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| marchese |
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| SYLLABICATION: | mar·che·se |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  mär-k  z, -k z |
| NOUN: | Inflected forms: pl. mar·che·si (-z )
1. An Italian nobleman ranking above a count and below a prince. 2. Used as the title for such a nobleman. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, from Medieval Latin (coms) marcnsis, (count) of the border, from marca, border region, of Germanic origin. See merg- in Appendix I.
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