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marquee
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Marquee \Mar*quee"\, n. [F. marquise, misunderstood as a plural; prob. orig., tent of the marchioness. See Marquis.] A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank. [Written also markee.]
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1680s, "large tent," from French marquise (mistaken in English as a plural) "linen canopy placed over an officer's tent to distinguish it from others,' " fem. of marquis (see marquis), and perhaps indicating "a place suitable for a marquis." Sense of "canopy over the entrance to a hotel or theater, etc." first recorded 1912 in American English.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (context British NZ English) A large tent with open sides, used for outdoors entertainment. 2 (context US English) A projecting canopy over an entrance, especially one with a sign that displays the name of the establishment or other information of it. 3 (context US English) By generalization, used for lights that turn on and off in sequence, or scrolling text, as these are common elements on a marquee. 4 (context Internet English) A banner on a web page displaying text that scrolls horizontally. 5 (context computing English) In graphical editing software, a special selection tool, used to highlight a portion of an image.
WordNet
Wikipedia
A marquee is most commonly a structure placed over the entrance to a hotel or theatre. It has signage stating either the name of the establishment or, in the case of theatres, the play or movie and the artist(s) appearing at that venue. The marquee is often identifiable by a surrounding cache of light bulbs, usually yellow or white, that flash intermittently or as chasing lights.
Marquee may refer to:
- Marquee (sign), a sign placed over the entrance to an establishment
- Marquee (tent), a large tent, generally used as a temporary building
- Marquee (TV series), 1979 Canadian drama television series
- Marquee Cinemas, a movie theater chain in the United States
- Marquee Club, commonly called The Marquee, a rock club in London
- Marquee element, an HTML tag that makes text scroll across the page as if on a marquee
- Marquee Theatre, a concert venue in Tempe, Arizona, United States
- "Marquee", a song by Super Chunk from their 1997 album Indoor Living
Marquee, or CBC Marquee, was a Canadian drama television series which aired on CBC Television from 1979 to 1980.
Usage examples of "marquee".
It was a large tent, as big as a parish marquee, and though both its wide entrances had been brailed back there was no wind to stir the damp air trapped under the high ridge.
The marquee directed her to elevators in Stanchion 5, one klick east by pedway, but Zoranna was tired.
They directed one of the more spectacular fire spouters to perform by the front-door marquee, where the Gluttonous Greek had once served as a beacon.
Bill got top billing on the Tropicana Hotel marquee, a new tux, and a suite by the pool for him and Pamela.
He fell so ungracefully and draped over the marquee, blood pouring down over the lights.
There was a little pleasure-launch on Willey Water and several rowing boats, and guests could take tea either in the marquee that was set up in the grounds of the house, or they could picnic in the shade of the great walnut tree at the boat-house by the lake.
Berlin, under a theatre marquee whose sentient bulbs may have looked on, a picturesque array of extras, witnesses to grave and historic encounters.
Blazing lights atop a marquee proclaimed to Gothamites that the Club Cadilly offered the best floor show in Manhattan with no charge other than the price of a dinner.
Peter Hofmeister and divers others of the magnates of the canton, were particularly loud in their plaudits on this repetition of the games, for, by a process that will be easily understood, they, who had been revelling and taking their potations in the marquees and booths while the mummers were absent, were more than qualified to supply the deficiencies of the actors by the warmth and exuberance of their own warmed imaginations.
The Outfit hotel was a respectable-looking stone structure on Park Avenue in the Fifties, with the name Oakwood Arms on the marquee.
Directly across the street was the Oakwood Arms, a gray stone hulk with a modest marquee.
She had meant to tell him of the visit of the two natives and of their unexpected kindness to her when they had found her marooned on Pinchgut Island but she was outside his marquee now and could not go back.
Firing lightning bolts in all directions just to share his happiness with the world, ranting that he had just accomplished what Ock and Venom and The Green Goblin and Doctor Doom had never been able to do, and at the same time rehearsing the witty romantic badinage that would burble from his suave lips as he squired the lovely Pity hither and yon, he embodied not just his usual sociopathy but also the truism that love makes fools of us all, especially for those of us who already happen to be far from the swiftest bulbs in the marquee.
The lanterns strung along the huge redwoods that bordered the lawns enclosed marquees, an orchestra, swingboats, mountainous buffets.
High silken pavilions or colored marquees, shooting up from among the crowd of meaner dwellings, marked where the great lords and barons of Leon and Castile displayed their standards, while over the white roofs, as far as eye could reach, the waving of ancients, pavons, pensils, and banderoles, with flash of gold and glow of colors, proclaimed that all the chivalry of Iberia were mustered in the plain beneath them.