Definition of marquesses Marquesses

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What does marquesses mean?

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Noun Plural: marquesses
marquess - a British peer ranking below a duke and above an earl
marquess - nobleman (in various countries) ranking above a count
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marquess (Noun)
A title of nobility, ranking beneath a duke and above an earl.

marquess
The degree of nobility which in the peerage of England ranks next to a duke. Marquises were originally commanders on the borders or frontiers of countries, or on the sea-coast, which they were bound to protect. In England, the title of marquis was used in this sense as early as the reign of Henry III., when there were marquises or lords-marchers of the borders of Scotland and Wales; and the foreign equivalent of markgraf was common on the continent.