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Margrave   Listen
noun
Margrave  n.  
1.
Originally, a lord or keeper of the borders or marches in Germany.
2.
The English equivalent of the German title of nobility, markgraf; a marquis.





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"Margrave" Quotes from Famous Books



... are irregular words, in which the distinction of sex is chiefly made by the termination: amoroso, amorosa: archduke, archduchess; chamberlain, chambermaid; duke, duchess; gaffer, gammer; goodman, goody; hero, heroine; landgrave, landgravine; margrave, margravine; marquis, marchioness; palsgrave, palsgravine; sakeret, sakerhawk; sewer, sewster; sultan, sultana; tzar, tzarina; tyrant, ...
— The Grammar of English Grammars • Goold Brown
... visit. I found the worthy woman the same as she had always been towards me, and she gave me the most affectionate welcome. She told me that Therese Imer, that pretty girl who had caused M. de Malipiero to strike me thirteen years before, had just returned from Bayreuth, where the margrave had made her fortune. As she lived in the house opposite, Madame Manzoni, who wanted to enjoy her surprise, sent her word to come over. She came almost immediately, holding by the hand a little boy of eight years—a ...
— The Memoires of Casanova, Complete • Jacques Casanova de Seingalt


Words linked to "Margrave" :   Germany, nobleman, FRG, military governor, Deutschland, lord, Federal Republic of Germany


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