Marquette


[mahr-ket; for 1 also French mar-ket] /mɑrˈkɛt; for 1 also French marˈkɛt/

noun
1.
Jacques
[zhahk] /ʒɑk/ (Show IPA), (“Père Marquette”) 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer in America.
2.
a city in N Michigan, on Lake Superior.
/mɑːˈkɛt/
noun
1.
Jacques (ʒak), known as Père Marquette. 1637–75, French Jesuit missionary and explorer, with Louis Jolliet, of the Mississippi river

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