marchesan.
/mɑːˈkeɪzə/, U.S. /mɑrˈkeɪzə/ An Italian marchioness.
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1775 (title) La Marchesa Giardiniera; a comic opera. To be performed at the King's Theatre, in the Hay-Market.]
1797 A. Radcliffe Italian I. i. 22 The Marchesa had observed his absence.
1842 A. Sedgwick Let. 15 Feb. (1890) II. i. 38 After you left us I had a party of five + maidkin from the Marchesa's.
1862 H. Aïdé Carr of Carrlyon II. 228 The marchesa wrote, with characteristic effusion, in her long, spidery characters.
1878 L. W. M. Lockhart Mine is Thine I. iv. 75 The favourite maid of an Italian marchesa.
1908 R. Bagot Anthony Cuthbert viii Find out what time the marchesa intends to breakfast.
1932 G. F.-H. Berkeley & J. Berkeley Italy in Making I. xii. 180 He went about making friends with men and women of every class and description, from the villano to the Roman Marchesa.
1950 C. Woodham-Smith Florence Nightingale 21 ‘At homes’ attended by fashionable marchesas and contessas.
1993 S. Bedford Compass Error (BNC) 72 She opened a door and saw them, the prince and the Marchesa Giulia, in the long room at Castelfonte.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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