Sentence example with the word 'marcher'

marcher

ambulator, backpacker, foot passenger, foot soldier, foot traveler, footslogger, hiker, hitchhiker, hoofer, infantryman, jaywalker, paddlefoot, pedestrian, peripatetic, trailsman, tramper, walker, walkist

Definition n. an inhabitant of a border district

Last update: September 22, 2015


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Towards the end of the 11th century, when the tide of Norman invasion swept upwards along the Wye valley, the district became a lordship marcher annexed to that of Brecknock, but was again severed from it on the death of William de Breos, when his daughter Matilda brought it to her husband, Roger Mortimer of Wigmore.   [Please select]

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It must have been quite a struggle, for she was no born marcher.   [Please select]

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But at one point, late in the afternoon, some marcher just ahead of me suddenly started to laugh.   [Please select]

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He isn't much to look at, but he's a marcher and a fighter.   [Please select]

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We have also just seen that in order to represent the trot the marcher at the back had to anticipate by a half-step.   [Please select]

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