marquisdom

English

Etymology

marquis +‎ -dom

Noun

marquisdom (plural marquisdoms)

  1. (obsolete) A marquisate.
    • 1585, The Historie of Scotland, Conteining the Beginning, Increase, Proceedings, Continuance, Acts and Gouernement of the Scotish Nation, from the Originall Thereof vnto the Yeere 1571, Gathered and Written in English by Raphaell Hollinshead: and Continued from 1571, to 1585, by Others: […], page 284, column 1:
      Againe, there is another familie of Scots, commonlie called the Scoties in Iſubꝛia, whereof Bernard Scotia and Hoꝛace his bꝛother (the one a ſenatoꝛ of Mantua, and the other a pꝛelat) are both famous, as well foꝛ their vertue, as nobilitie: alſo Francis Scotia, loꝛd of Pine and Mondone, and other nobles of the marqueſdome of Saluce, are deſcended from the Scots, […]
    • 2017, Karin Roffman, “Blue Mountain (1936–1940)”, in The Songs We Know Best: John Ashbery’s Early Life, New York, N.Y.: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, →ISBN, →LCCN, page 38:
      The children spent more time in their imaginary “kingdoms, empires, domains, dukedoms, and marquisdoms … and—oh yes! Duchessdoms,” and talked for hours about what to name their castles and realms.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “marquisdom”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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