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Mar•quette



Pronunciation: (mär-ket'; for 1 also Fr. mar-ket'), [key]
—n.
1. Jacques Pronunciation: (zhäk) [key] (“Père Marquette”), 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
2. a city in N Michigan, on Lake Superior. 23,288.

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