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marquois Surveying.|ˈmɑːkwɔɪz|
[app. a blunder for F. marquoir marking instrument, ‘a sort of ruler used by tailors’ (Hatz.-Darm.).]
Used attrib. in marquois scale (and triangle), an apparatus devised for the purpose of drawing equidistant parallel lines with speed and accuracy.
Sometimes written Marquoi's, Marquois's, as if the genitive of a proper name.
1834Catalogue Instr. Troughton & Simms 2 Plotting, Marquois and Gunter's Scales. 1849Heather Math. Instr. 45 The pair of Marquois's scales now before us. 1878Marks in Jrnl. Franklin Inst. CV. 418 An improved form of Marquoi's scale. 1883W. H. Richards Text Bk. Milit. Topogr. 153 A large rolling ruler, or the marquois scale and triangle, is available for carrying a parallel line. 1886Athenæum 4 Sept. 307/2 There is one..instrument, namely, the marquois scales, which it is rather surprising to see omitted in this list. |