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Margrave   /mˈɑrgrˌeɪv/   Listen
Margrave

noun
1.
The military governor of a frontier province in medieval Germany.
2.
A German nobleman ranking above a count (corresponding in rank to a British marquess).





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"Margrave" Quotes from Famous Books



... down the Carl-Friedrichs-Strasse to the Margrave's Pyramid, and back to the hotel, where Dare also decided to take up his stay. De Stancy left him with the book-keeper at the desk, and went upstairs to see if ...
— A Laodicean • Thomas Hardy
... performing in his private theatre. Her success was uninterrupted until she declined to play, in the Siege de Calais, with an actor who had been guilty of dishonesty; she was then thrown into prison, and refused to reappear. When about fifty years of age she became the mistress of the Margrave of Ansbach, at whose court she resided for eighteen years. In 1791 she returned to Paris, where, poor and forgotten, she died ...
— Women of Modern France - Woman In All Ages And In All Countries • Hugo P. Thieme


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


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