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marseilles
WORDNET DICTIONARY
Noun marseilles has 1 sense
- marseilles(n = noun.location) marseille - a port city in southeastern France on the Mediterranean; Array is a kind of city, metropolis, urban center, port
is a part of france, french republic
CIDE DICTIONARY
marseilles, n.
A general term for certain kinds of fabrics, which are formed of two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming double cloth, quilted in the loom; -- so named because first made in Marseilles , France. [1913 Webster]
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