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Marquette

[ mahr-ket; French mar-ket ]

noun

  1. Jacques [zhahk] Père Marquette, 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
  2. a city in N Michigan, on Lake Superior.


Marquette

/ mɑːˈkɛt /

noun

  1. MarquetteJacques16371675MFrenchRELIGION: Jesuit missionaryTRAVEL AND EXPLORATION: explorer Jacques (ʒak), known as Père Marquette. 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer, with Louis Jolliet, of the Mississippi river


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A former superintendent of Milwaukee schools, he is now a Distinguished Professor of Education at Marquette University.

An earlier Marquette Law School poll showed a tighter race, but with Burke again easily beating Walker by 18 points among women.

In 2006, when I was a visiting professor at Marquette, I found an envelope with the Esquire emblem on it in my campus mailbox.

Her team helps steal the records of Sharon Marquette, an influential madam who is trying to keep her client list private.

And there was a Marquette poll (PDF) of Wisconsin two weeks ago that had a plus-8 Democratic skew.

As these were Indian good manners, Marquette and Joliet submitted as gracefully as they could.

After spending the night with these Indians, Joliet and Marquette were escorted back to their canoes.

News of the triumph of the white men's God went far and wide, and Marquette found his missions easier after that.

Marquette, in 1673, spells the name of the river indifferently Meshkousing, and Mishkousing.

Marquette was a native of Laon, in Picardy, where his family was of distinguished rank.

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