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UK
/mˈækwɪz/
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NOUN
- a guerrilla fighter in the French underground in World War II
- the French underground that fought against the German occupation in World War II
How To Use Maquis In A Sentence
- At the drop area the Maquis failed to flash their reception lights and caused the mission to be aborted.
- In the same area, H. spontaneum also occupies an array of secondary habitats, such as open Mediterranean maquis, abandoned fields, and roadsides.
- Its roots grow deep in the rocky earth of maquis and chaparral.
- Human impact, mainly from grazing, fires, and firewood collection, has transformed the majority of the existing wild olive and carob plant communities into secondary dense shrubs or "maquis" or into agroforestry landscapes composed of scattered trees on grasslands or crops. Southwest Iberian Mediterranean sclerophyllous and mixed forests
- ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~French Vocabulary~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ la porte-fenêtre (f) = door-window; la serveuse (f) = barmaid; le patron (la patronne) = business owner; la Libération (f) = the freeing from foreign occupation; la mode (f) = fashion; le maquisard (m) = "man of the maquis" (wild mediterranean scrubland) or French resistance fighter hidden in the forests and mountains during WWII; la carrosserie (f) = automobile bodyshop WWII soldiers remembrance
- Areas of granite and sandstone became colonized by maquis, a low, dense cover of ilex, briars, broom, tree heathers, and laurels.
- It is this kind of underwood which is called mâquis. Mateo Falcone
- Nancy Wake, the only woman warrior, fought gallantly with the maquis in the Auvergne, but Hastings is no more convinced than many of his fellow historians that the French resistance played more than a decorative role.
- Valleys of almost Alpine verdure are succeeded by tracts of chestnut wood and scattered pines, or deep and flowery brushwood -- the 'maquis' of Corsica, which yields shelter to its traditional outlaws and bandits. Sketches and Studies in Italy and Greece, First Series
- The American commander refused to accept the German’s surrender unless it was made jointly to him and to the maquisard commander at his side, around whose shoulder the Yank had draped his arm. Shadow Knights