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Recent Examples of marquise
The necklace, for starters, features 164 brilliant-cut diamonds and 14 marquise diamonds, altogether weighing nearly 50 carats.
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Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
Made by Jostens, the rings have 609 round diamonds, 16 baguette diamonds, four marquise diamonds and 35 rubies for 16.10 total carats.
—Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
My marquise was still there.
—Mariam Rahmani, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
The photographer on hand for the shoot snapped away as McBride presented Limehouse with a marquise-cut diamond surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, set on a rose gold band with one hidden diamond embedded inside.
—Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
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Demetrius Simms, Robb Report, 5 May 2023
Made by Jostens, the rings have 609 round diamonds, 16 baguette diamonds, four marquise diamonds and 35 rubies for 16.10 total carats.
—Jace Evans, USA TODAY, 16 June 2023
My marquise was still there.
—Mariam Rahmani, Los Angeles Times, 21 Apr. 2022
The photographer on hand for the shoot snapped away as McBride presented Limehouse with a marquise-cut diamond surrounded by a halo of smaller diamonds, set on a rose gold band with one hidden diamond embedded inside.
—Alex Apatoff, Peoplemag, 9 Mar. 2023
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Then one day, a countess checks in wearing a green parrot and promises to tell Marta seven stories.Yvonne Zipp, The Christian Science Monitor, 1 Nov. 2024
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Available to stream on AMC+ AMC+ A Bay of Blood (1971) Also known by its alternate title Twitch of the Death Nerve, the film centers on the murder of a wealthy countess by her own husband, which sets off a string of murders in the surrounding area.Meagan Navarro, Vulture, 31 Oct. 2024
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However, after just eight minutes, the duchess was rushed out.Thomas G. Moukawsher, Newsweek, 5 Nov. 2024
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The duchess could never have guessed that, three centuries later, a generation of professional women would be using her sartorial experiment in a myriad of ways to command respect and convey important — and sometimes nuanced — messages.Leah Dolan, CNN, 8 Oct. 2024
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In the classic black-and-white film Roman Holiday, Audrey Hepburn's character, a princess who is bored with her royal life, cuts her hair into a short, curly crop with baby bangs—a meaningful symbol of her desire for freedom.Kara Nesvig, Allure, 4 Nov. 2024
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Her life in the spotlight and tragic death have fascinated the public since the day she was born -- as the King of Rock and Roll's princess.Claire Pedersen, ABC News, 31 Oct. 2024
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In the late 1950s, LaVey formed a magic circle in San Francisco to explore black magic and the occult (the regulars included friends like Anger, the Danish baroness Carin de Plessen, and fantasy/sci-fi writers such as Fritz Leiber and August Derleth, the first publisher of H. P. Lovecraft).Alex Bhattacharji, Rolling Stone, 4 Aug. 2024
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If your mind immediately goes to the Bridgerton baronesses, there was in fact a collab done in 2021.Brie Schwartz, Glamour, 23 July 2024
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While Jon is bound to leadership by a sense of duty, Daenerys sees herself as a liberator, a queen steeped in moral righteousness who freed slaves across the sea for the greater good.David Sims, The Atlantic, 14 July 2017
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THE TRENDSETTER Salt & Straw is the homecoming queen of ice cream in LA.Cole Kazdin, Los Angeles Magazine, 14 July 2017
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Multiple media outlets begin to publish explainers on the marchioness, but not all of them mention the affair rumors.Ellie Hall, Vulture, 9 July 2024
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Marjorie Paget, marchioness of Anglesey, wore the necklace to the coronation of King George VI in 1937.Amarachi Orie, CNN, 24 Sep. 2024
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Season 2 will follow Quinn's second book, The Viscount Who Loved Me, and the quest of the eldest Bridgerton, Anthony, to find his viscountess.Kimberlee Speakman, Peoplemag, 21 June 2023
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Season 2, on the other hand, was all about her brother Anthony Bridgerton's (Jonathan Bailey) quest to find his viscountess.Julia Moore, Peoplemag, 11 Apr. 2023
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The marchesa was painted in her prime by Giovanni Boldini in 1908; the bold brush strokes, confident pose and penetrating gaze perfectly sum up a woman whose aim in life was to be nothing less than a work of art.CATH POUND, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
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At the request of Les Modes, a French fashion magazine, Boldini’s painting of the marchesa was exhibited at the couturier Jacques Doucet’s fashion house in Paris, with his creations displayed around it.CATH POUND, New York Times, 14 Mar. 2018
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“Marquise.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/marquise. Accessed 21 Nov. 2024.
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