marge
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English[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- Rhymes: -ɑː(r)dʒ
Etymology 1[edit]
From French marge, from Latin margo, of Germanic origin.
Noun[edit]
marge (plural marges)
- (archaic) margin; edge; verge.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- […] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
- Where thou thyself dost air [...]
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- the long curved crest
- Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.
- 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:
- Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
Etymology 2[edit]
Shortened from the word margarine.
Noun[edit]
marge (usually uncountable, plural marges)
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Catalan[edit]
Noun[edit]
marge m (plural marges)
Dutch[edit]
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Audio (file)
Noun[edit]
marge f, m (plural marges, diminutive margetje n)
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French[edit]
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Noun[edit]
marge f (plural marges)
- margin (of paper, etc)
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Further reading[edit]
- “marge” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).
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Adjective[edit]
marge pl
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