Meanings
- alternativeAlternative form of Marseillais: of, from or relating to Marseille
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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
- 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 2353 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 388The 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
- alternativeAlternative form of the Marseillaise
[...] singing the Marseillese, like a fire whirlwind swept them from the field.
1920, Guide to Carlyle, page 1983 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 94Similarly, 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 194At 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
Origin
From Marseille + -ese. Doublet of Marseillais and Marseillaise.
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