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marquee Noun a large tent used for a party, exhibition, etc. [invented singular form of marquise]
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Translations n marquee [maːˈkiː] a very large tent used for circuses, parties etc They hired a marquee for their party. markiestent طُنْف: خَيْمَه واسِعَه шатра velký stan stort telt; festtelt großes Zelt μεγάλη σκηνή, τέντα carpa suurtelk خیمه بزرگ teltta grande tente אוֹהֶל גָדוֹל शामियाना velik šator nagy sátor tenda besar stórt hátíðatjald tendone 大テント 극장의 대형 간판 didelė palapinė liela telts khemah grote tent stort telt, baldakin duży namiot tenda grande cort mare шатёр veľký stan velik šotor šator cirkustält, partytält เต็นท์ขนาดใหญ่ büyük çadır 大帳篷 великий намет, шатро بڑا خیمہ lều vải 大帐篷 How to thank TFD for its existence? Tell a friend about us, add a link to this page, add the site to iGoogle, or visit webmaster's page for free fun content. |
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Other prints, and afterwards some paintings, were sold to leading Middlemarchers who had come with a special desire for them, and there was a more active movement of the audience in and out; some, who had bought what they wanted, going away, others coming in either quite newly or from a temporary visit to the refreshments which were spread under the marquee on the lawn. As I hinted before, this whalebone marquee was never pitched except in port; and on board the Pequod, for thirty years, the order to strike the tent was well known to be the next thing to heaving up the anchor. Come, friends, let us move our station, and in such fashion, too, as will throw the cunning of a Mingo on a wrong scent, or our scalps will be drying in the wind in front of Montcalm's marquee, ag'in this hour to-morrow. |
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