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marquee

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mar·quee  (mär-k)
n.
1. A large tent, often with open sides, used chiefly for outdoor entertainment.
2. A rooflike structure, often bearing a signboard, projecting over an entrance, as to a theater or hotel. Also called marquise.
adj.
Being an athlete of exceptional skill and popularity: The team is hoping to sign a marquee player.

[French marquise, marquise, marquee; see marquise.]

marquee
Noun
a large tent used for a party, exhibition, etc. [invented singular form of marquise]
ThesaurusLegend:  Synonyms Related Words Antonyms
Noun1.marqueemarquee - large and often sumptuous tent      
collapsible shelter, tent - a portable shelter (usually of canvas stretched over supporting poles and fastened to the ground with ropes and pegs); "he pitched his tent near the creek"
2.marquee - permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
canopy - a covering (usually of cloth) that serves as a roof to shelter an area from the weather
Translations

marquee [mɑːˈkiː] ncarpa, entoldado
marquee [mɑːˈkiː] nchapiteau m
marquee [mɑːˈkiː] nFestzelt nt
marquee [mɑːˈkiː] npadiglione m

marquee
n marquee [maːˈkiː]
a very large tent used for circuses, parties etc They hired a marquee for their party.markiestentطُنْف: خَيْمَه واسِعَهшатраvelký stanstort telt; festteltgroßes Zeltμεγάλη σκηνή, τένταcarpasuurtelkخیمه بزرگtelttagrande tenteאוֹהֶל גָדוֹלशामियानाvelik šatornagy sátortenda besarstórt hátíðatjaldtendone大テント극장의 대형 간판didelė palapinėliela teltskhemahgrote tentstort telt, baldakinduży namiottenda grandecort mareшатёрveľký stanvelik šotoršatorcirkustält, partytältเต็นท์ขนาดใหญ่büyük çadır大帳篷великий намет, шатроبڑا خیمہlều vải

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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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