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Marquette
2 dictionary results for: Marquette, Jacques
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Mar⋅quette

[mahr-ket; for 1 also Fr. 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. 23,288.
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Mar·quette     (mär-kět')  Pronunciation Key 
French missionary who in 1673 accompanied Louis Jolliet on an extensive exploration of the Wisconsin, Mississippi, and Illinois rivers.
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