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Marseillese
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English
Etymology
From en Marseille -ese. en Marseillais Marseillaise.
Pronunciation
en iːz 3
Adjective
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en Marseillais: en 1 Marseille
en 1904 Ernest Alfred Vizetelly Émile Zola, Novelist and Reformer 101 https://books.google.fr/books?id=JUucLNLD9kAC Zola fortunately had other work in hand, having arranged with the director of a Marseillese newspaper, "Le Messager de Provence," to supply him with a serial story, based (so Zola wrote to Valabrègue), on certain criminal trials, respecting which he had received such an infinity of documents that he hardly knew how to reduce so much chaos to order and invest it with life.
Noun
Marseillese
en Marseillais: en 1 Marseille
en 1842 The Ancient History 235 https://books.google.fr/books?id=8CRWAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA235 The Marseillese had, in consequence, at first a severe war upon their hands; [...]
en 1843 Walter Scott Life of Napoleon Buonaparte 388 https://books.google.com/books?id=wS2DDlNdQLkC&pg=PA388 The Marseillese were three thousand six hundred men; they had a heavier and more numerous artillery, and yet they have been obliged to recross the Durance.
en 1875 Augustin Thierry History of the Conquest of England by the Normans 265 https://books.google.com/books?id=O_nRAAAAMAAJ&pg=PA265 The Marseillese were ill supported by this class of men, many of whom thought it more knightly to serve under the banner of the foreigner than to make common cause with the friends of national independence.
en 1877 The Great and Eccentric Characters of the World 329 https://books.google.fr/books?id=GIUVl33tIvIC&pg=PA329 [...] a Marseillese, a man of Nismes, a military man, and a manufacturer of Montpellier.
Proper noun
1
en Q41180 en the Marseillaise
en 1898 Memorie 94 https://books.google.com/books?id=DSoBAAAAMAAJ&pg=RA3-PA94 In the evening the public were invited to illuminate the streets which was done partially, and a party with banners flying and singing the Marseillese paraded the Cassero [...]
en 1920 Guide to Carlyle 198 https://books.google.com/books?id=YCk3AAAAIAAJ [...] singing the Marseillese, like a fire whirlwind swept them from the field.
en 2016 Before Babel: A History of Basque Literatures 194 https://books.google.com/books?id=8vVKDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA194 Similarly, Jose Maria Iparragirre (1820-1881) joined the Carlist cause in the war but, later, exiled himself to France and traveled the country earning money by singing the Marseillese on the streets.
en 2019 Venezuelan Anarchism 1898 https://books.google.com/books?id=A0yjDwAAQBAJ&pg=PA1898 At the opening of their very well attended party-like event on the Plaza Bolívar de Caracas they had a band play the Marseillese.