marquess
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“Politics is a hard-nosed game, and the right has been playing marquess of Queensbury Rules for a long time on this,” he said.
Al Sharpton, ‘PoliticsNation’ Advertisers Targeted in New Boycott | David Freedlander | October 7, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTDuchess is the highest rank in the English peerage (in descending order the ranks go duke, marquess, earl, viscount, and baron).
Kate Middleton: Why Be a Duchess When You Can Be a Princess? | Tom Sykes | August 5, 2013 | THE DAILY BEASTThere's an ancient joke about a young MP who, late in the 19th century, posed a question to the aged marquess of Salisbury.
Indeed, he couldn't conceive that his marquess of Queensbury rules might be seen as an easily exploited weakness.
A Whig of still greater note and authority, the marquess of Hartington, separated himself on this occasion from the junto.
The History of England from the Accession of James II. | Thomas Babington Macaulay
"He (pointing to the young gentleman in sky-blue) is the only son of the powerful marquess of Filletoville." '
The Pickwick Papers | Charles DickensThe marquess de Bouille, on hearing of the circumstance, took them to his house, where he treated them most hospitably.
The Book of Three Hundred Anecdotes | VariousI am the youngest son of a marquess, answered the youth, a barber by trade, and affianced to the daughter of the King of Castille.
Tales from the Lands of Nuts and Grapes | Charles Sellers and OthersConingsby was summoned from Eton to Monmouth House, and returned to school in the full favour of the marquess.
The World's Greatest Books, Vol III | Arthur Mee and J.A. Hammerton, Eds.
British Dictionary definitions for marquess
/ (ˈmɑːkwɪs) /
(in the British Isles) a nobleman ranking between a duke and an earl
See marquis
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