marquee
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noun
1.
a tall rooflike projection above a theater entrance, usually containing the name of a currently featured play or film and its stars.
2.
a rooflike shelter, as of glass, projecting above an outer door and over a sidewalk or a terrace.
adjective
4.
superlative; headlining: a marquee basketball player.
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| —n | |
| 1. | a large tent used for entertainment, exhibition, etc |
| 2. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) Also called: marquise a canopy over the entrance to a theatre, hotel, etc |
| 3. | chiefly (US), (Canadian) (modifier) celebrated or pre-eminent: a marquee player |
| [C17 (originally an officer's tent): invented singular form of | |
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Word Origin & History
marquee
1690, "large tent," from Fr. marquise (mistaken in Eng. as a plural) "linen canopy placed over an officer's tent to distinguish it from others'," lit. fem. of marquis, perhaps indicating "a place suitable for a marquis." Sense of "canopy over the entrance to a hotel or theater, etc." first recorded 1934
in Amer.Eng.
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Example sentences
Now, the managers of some marquee companies are aiming to make this concession permanent.
The marquee has already been restored by a real-estate company as part of an apartment-complex promotion.
They have marquee names, make appearances, draw crowds.
The season of the darkened marquee is suddenly becoming the season of the booking bonanza.
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