(UK) The court or seat of a marshal.
(UK) The court or seat of a marshal.
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UK and Irish slang — Cockney, Scouse, Geordie, Yorkshire, Glaswegian, Brummie, Welsh, West Country, plus Irish English. Centuries of regional dialects feeding into modern British and Irish street talk.
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(UK, historical) An officer in the royal household, responsible for maintaining order in the royal court.
(historical) A high-ranking officer in the household of a medieval prince or lord, who was originally in charge of the cavalry and later the military forces in general.
(Scotland) marshal.
(UK) A hereditary royal officeholder and chivalric title under the sovereign of the United Kingdom, responsible for state funerals and coronations.
(Northern England, Scotland, possibly, obsolete) A merse or marsh.