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单词 marshalsea
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marshalsea

/ˈmɑːʃ(ə)lsiː /
noun
1(In England) a court formerly held before the steward and the knight marshal of the royal household. It was abolished in 1849.When Francis was born, Mr Place was an officer of the Marshalsea court....
  • But what made this Inn once noted was that all the six attorneys of the Marshalsea Court (better known as the Palace Court) had their chambers there.
  • He was born in a "sponging house," his father being one of the bailiffs of the Marshalsea Court, and no more genteel or refined than his class, was apprenticed to a leather breeches maker at the age of thirteen.
1.1 (the Marshalsea) A former prison in Southwark, London, under the control of the knight marshal.

Origin

Late Middle English (earlier marchalcy): from Anglo-Norman French marschalcie, from late Latin mariscalcia, from mariscalcus 'marshal'.

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