marquee
Speech parts
1. marquee - Noun
2. marquee - Adjective
3. marquee - Verb
Meaning
A large field tent; esp., one adapted to the use of an officer of high rank.
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Phrases with the word
Examples
We did a gig at the Marquee and we were supposed to be paid five pounds but we never got it, and it cost us something like 10 pounds in petrol to get there to do it. So what we did was steal some equipment from The Marquee.
All they had to do was put my name on a marquee and watch the money roll in.
I did 'Lone Star Love' in 2007 with Randy Quaid, and that was supposed to come to Broadway at the Belasco and a marquee went up and everything... and it all fell apart, and that marquee came right down, and we got severance pay. And, it was very sad.
Health care reform, the marquee legislative accomplishment of the Obama administration's first term, was passed before we entered the world of divided government.
I hope I'm in a position to make stuff that I really want to make as opposed to stuff that I just have to make for money reasons, or to sustain a certain marquee value.
A constant swirl of a couple of dozen people stood by the church marquee.