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UK
/mˈɑːseɪlz/
]
[ US /mɑɹˈsaɪɫəs, mɑɹˈsaɪz/ ]
[ US /mɑɹˈsaɪɫəs, mɑɹˈsaɪz/ ]
NOUN
- a port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean
How To Use Marseilles In A Sentence
- Carolus Magnus then held court in Paris; but the text evidently alludes to one of the port-cities of Provence as Marseille which we English will miscall Marseilles. The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night
- Jean-Luc Colombo, an oenologist from Marseilles, moved here with his wife, Anne, in the 1980s, first establishing a negotiant/consulting business and later buying vineyards. Rustic but Rewarding, Cornas Gains the Spotlight
- Bouillabaise, a fish soup in a zesty, tomatoey broth comes from Marseilles and is traditionally made with a netful of fish from the Mediterranean, shellfish to sea bass. The Swell Dressed Party
- Early in life he was placed under the wardship of a tutor in Marseilles.
- MARSEILLES, France (AP) - Madonna is expected to visit some of the eight workers who were injured in an accident in which two workers were killed while assembling a music stage for the singer in the French port of Marseilles. News Channel 9: Local News
- The biggest difference between the decks is the lack of pictures - playing cards developed from the Marseilles Tarot which didn't have any pictures on the minor arcana, and kept only the Fool in the form of the joker.
- Many of the 4,000 books in the auction www.bloomsburyauctions.com have Davidson's bookplate affixed—a simple line drawing of the Mediterranean rascasse fish, the essential ingredient of bouillabaisse, of which Davidson wrote a hilarious essay called "The Harlot of Marseilles. A Culinary Man of Letters
- He stayed based in grimy Marseilles, instead of resettling in Paris and becoming part of its scene and myth. Gopnik's Daily Pic: Monticelli, van Gogh's godfather
- One year in a Jesuit rehab penitentiary outside Madrid, two more as a worker-priest in a Marseilles slum, and only then back to the Congo he so unwisely loved. The mission song
- You ask, what if I had slipped from those Marseilles roofs, and been dashed to pieces on the cruel cobbles, or torn asunder by those ensanguined terrorists?" cries he,, swigging champagne and waving a pudgy finger. Watershed