marquis
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Hilton agrees to concede defeat when Villaraigosa promises to make him the marquis of Huntington Beach.
From Los Angeles Times ● Dec. 31, 2025
A 2005 biography of Bradford suggested she was indeed descended from lofty stock by way of her mother, who was, it said, the illegitimate daughter of a marquis.
From BBC ● Nov. 25, 2024
Daly presented her with a five-carat marquis diamond ring.
From Golf Digest ● Apr. 20, 2020
Wright made her second trip to America in 1824, when she traveled with the marquis de Lafayette during his farewell tour of the United States.
From Textbooks ● Jan. 18, 2018
The marquis was 19 when he left France and reported to General Washington in Philadelphia in 1777.
From "George Washington, Spymaster" by Thomas B. Allen
“If those marquises came back to life and saw this house, they would surely die again,” joked Elayne Clavel, 26, wife of musician Villa.
From Seattle Times ● Oct. 18, 2023
He became a close friend of counts, marquises and businesspeople, too.
From New York Times ● Oct. 18, 2014
The list was spattered with landowners, containing 11 dukes, six marquises, 14 earls and nine viscounts.
From BBC ● Apr. 18, 2013
There are approximately 28 dukes, 42 marquises, 230 earls, 103 viscounts, 484 barons in the peerage at present, not including the 27 women who hold titles in their own right.
From Time Magazine Archive
He was a younger son of a long line of marquises who for their combination of breeding and profligacy probably had no match in the British peerage.
From The Whirligig of Time by Williams, Wayland Wells
