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Webster 1913 Edition
Marge
Marge
,Noun.
[F.
marge
. See Margin
.] Border; margin; edge; verge.
[Poetic]
Tennyson.
Along the river’s stony
marge
. Wordsworth.
Definition 2024
Marge
marge
marge
English
Noun
marge (plural marges)
- Border; margin; edge; verge.
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
- [...] And thy sea-marge, sterile and rocky-hard,
- Where thou thyself dost air [...]
- 1874, James Thomson, The City of Dreadful Night
- the long curved crest
- Which swells out two leagues from the river marge.
- 1907, Robert W. Service, “The Cremation of Sam McGee”, in The Spell of the Yukon and Other Verses:
- Till I came to the marge of Lake Lebarge, and a derelict there lay; / It was jammed in the ice, but I saw in a trice it was called the "Alice May". / And I looked at it, and I thought a bit, and I looked at my frozen chum; / Then "Here", said I, with a sudden cry, "is my cre-ma-tor-eum."
- 1610, The Tempest, by Shakespeare, act 4 scene 1
Etymology 2
Shortened from the word margarine.
Noun
marge (uncountable)
- (colloquial, Britain, New Zealand) margarine.