Marse vs Marae - What's the difference?
marse | marae |
(obsolete, dialectal, US, Caribbean) , often used as a general title of respect.
* ante 1887 , Innes Randolph, "Good Ol' Rebel Soldier":
* {{quote-book, year=1941, author=Bernice Bowden, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition=
, passage=My white folks was Ad White what owned me. Called him Marse' Ad. Don't call folks ' marse much now-days. }}
* {{quote-book, year=1941, author=Work Projects Administration, title=Slave Narratives: A Folk History of Slavery in the United States, chapter=, edition=
, passage=All of marse Butler's people were Creek Indians. }}
(archaic) a Polynesian sacred altar or enclosure
:* 2004': The path ended down by the sea at a crumbling ‘ingot’ of black coral, twenty yards in length & in height two men. ‘A '''''marae'' , this is called,’ Mr Wagstaff informed me. ‘All over the South Seas you see ’em, I’m told.’ — David Mitchell, ''Cloud Atlas
the courtyard of a Maori wharenui or meeting-house and the buildings around it
As nouns the difference between marse and marae
is that marse is (obsolete|dialectal|us|caribbean) , often used as a general title of respect while marae is (archaic) a polynesian sacred altar or enclosure.marse
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Alternative forms
* MarseNoun
(en noun)- I followed old Marse Robert for four year near about / Got wounded in three place and starved at Point Lookout
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