Marches

• IPA^(key): /ˈmɑːt͡ʃɪz/, /ˈmɒɹt͡ʃəz/

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Marches

1. plural of March

See march (“border area”).

the Marches

1. Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
2. The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.

   Synonym: Welsh Marches

   • 1976, J. R. Lander, “The Crown and the Aristocracy in England, 1450-1509”, in Albion: A Quarterly Journal Concerned with British Studies, volume 8, number 3, →JSTOR, page 217:

     A good example is Wales and the Marches where most of the great landlords were absentees who, by the mid-fifteenth century, had allowed their administrative and judicial powers to slip into the hands of a corrupt squirearchy.

   • 2023 November 6, Craig Duggan, “Environment: Wales-England Marches plan to protect nature”, in BBC News‎^[1]:

     The Marches also have areas of intensive farming, as well as extensive forestry plantations where nature is struggling to thrive.

3. The lands in the vicinity of the Scottish-English border.
   • 1913, Howard Pease, The Lord Wardens of the Marches of England and Scotland: Being a Brief History of the Marches, the Laws of the March, and the Marchmen, Together with Some Account of the Ancient Feud Between England and Scotland, page 234:

     […] sets forth the romantic story of 'the Laws of the Marches,' […] if a quarrel takes place on the Marches between the two countries [and someone dies], his body shall be brought to the Marches at the day and place within the appointed parts, […]

• charmes, machers, mesarch, schmear

• IPA^(key): /maʁʃ/

Marches f pl (plural only)

1. Marche (an administrative region in central Italy)