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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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The transfer from Marquette made a three-pointer with 18 seconds to play that drew Virginia within 65-61 and had another clean look from behind the arc after a Wolfpack turnover.

Bennett has managed to alter the trajectory of the season even as he tinkers with a lineup that includes several new players, most notably Sam Hauser, a transfer from Marquette who sat out last season.

Games against Providence, Marquette and DePaul were all also postponed.

The game scheduled for Wednesday night against DePaul was postponed, and games against Providence on Saturday and Marquette next Wednesday also were pushed back.

A loss to Marquette on Saturday started with turnovers on the first four possessions, and late second-half turnovers helped seal the deal.

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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