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marquis
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Definition:a nobleman who ranks higher than a count and lower than a duke
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King: Harry, I hereby name thee, Captain of the Guard, Grand Warden of the Northern and Eastern Marches, Chief Lunatic of the Duchy of Gloucester, Viceroy of Wales, Sheriff of Nottingham, Marquis of the Midlands, Lord Hoe-Maker in ordinary and Harbinger of the Doomed-Rat.
BBC. Blackadder, season 1: The Black Seal.
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for all the world knows, that he is only a glumglum, a title inferior by one degree, as that of a marquis is to a duke in England; yet I allow he preceded me in right of his post.
Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels Into Several Remote Regions of the World (1726)
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The man with the manners of a marquis seemed to have been at great pains to send a really representative supply of fowls.
P. G. Wodehouse. Love Among the Chickens A Story of the Haps and Mishaps on an English Chicken Farm (1909)
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"[...] Dolly took Tanya and Grisha to a children's ball at the Sarmatskys': Tanya was a French marquise."
Leo Tolstoy. Anna Karenina (Translated by Constance Garnett)
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