English Explanatory Dictionary

Welsh Marches

English dictionary entry

Meanings

noun
  1. The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.

Word forms

Welsh Marches the Welsh Marches the Marches

Etymology

From French marche (“frontier area, border lands”), Old English mearc (“boundary”).

Related words

Marcher lord
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