Marseillese

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A form of Marseillais — Of, from or relating to the city of Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône department, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France.

Scrabble 13

Meanings

adjective
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Marseillais: of, from or relating to Marseille
    1 more example

    Zola fortunately had other work in hand, having arranged with the director of a Marseillese newspaper, "Le Messager de Provence," to supply him with a serial story, based (so Zola wrote to Valabrègue), on certain criminal trials, respecting which he had received such an infinity of documents that he hardly knew how to reduce so much chaos to order and invest it with life.

    1904, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly, Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer, page 101
nounMarseillese (plural Marseillese)
  1. alternativeAlternative form of Marseillais: a native or inhabitant of Marseille

    The Marseillese had, in consequence, at first a severe war upon their hands; [...]

    1842, The Ancient History, page 235
    3 more examples

    The Marseillese were three thousand six hundred men; they had a heavier and more numerous artillery, and yet they have been obliged to recross the Durance.

    1843, Walter Scott, Life of Napoleon Buonaparte, page 388

    The Marseillese were ill supported by this class of men, many of whom thought it more knightly to serve under the banner of the foreigner than to make common cause with the friends of national independence.

    1875, Augustin Thierry, History of the Conquest of England by the Normans, page 265

    [...] a Marseillese, a man of Nismes, a military man, and a manufacturer of Montpellier.

    1877, The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World, page 329
proper nounthe Marseillese
  1. alternativeAlternative form of the Marseillaise

    [...] singing the Marseillese, like a fire whirlwind swept them from the field.

    1920, Guide to Carlyle, page 198
    3 more examples

    In the evening the public were invited to illuminate the streets which was done partially, and a party with banners flying and singing the Marseillese paraded the Cassero [...]

    1898, Memorie, page 94

    Similarly, Jose Maria Iparragirre (1820-1881) joined the Carlist cause in the war but, later, exiled himself to France and traveled the country earning money by singing the Marseillese on the streets.

    2016, Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures, page 194

    At the opening of their very well attended party-like event on the Plaza Bolívar de Caracas they had a band play the Marseillese.

    2019, Venezuelan Anarchism, page 1898

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