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- proper noun A male
given name occasionally borrowed from French.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun a hairdo characterized by deep regular waves that are made by a heated curling iron
- verb make a marcel in a woman's hair
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Examples
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Hurley considers another class of cases, what she calls Marcel's
The Unity of Consciousness Brook, Andrew 2006
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Marcel is ten years, twelve years older, had more experience in the world, and is trying to inform his baby brother that he may be a little bit naïve about how the world works.
Periodicals 2010
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I found this recipe, sans peppermint, in Marcel Desaulniers 'Death By Chocolate Cookies.
Archive 2009-06-01 Laura 2009
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For example, maybe Marcel is already dead or unconscious at the point that Id starts dismembering the body.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » EWill79’s Review Forum 2010
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I found this recipe, sans peppermint, in Marcel Desaulniers 'Death By Chocolate Cookies.
Mint Chocolate Dalmatians Laura 2009
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But the most important distinction of all, says Gabriel Marcel, is between "the full" and "the empty", the solid and the shallow, the profound and the trivial.
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If Marcel is acting atypically, I would recommend making that more obvious.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » EWill79’s Review Forum 2010
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And to the sweetly theatrical lighting of the interior scenes in "Le Havre"—the cinematographer was Timo Salminen—not to mention, though I will, the name of Marcel's wife Arletty, as in the star of Carné's "Children of Paradise", or the presence of such veteran French actors as Jean-Pierre Darroussin, who plays a slightly self-parodying police inspector, and, ever so briefly, Jean-Pierre Léaud, the star of countless films by François Truffaut and Jean-Luc Godard.
'Margin Call': Thrills, Chills of Financial Ills Joe Morgenstern 2011
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If Marcel is just one of ~50 heroes that died, I would recommend cuing that to readers during combat.
Superhero Nation: how to write superhero novels and comic books » EWill79’s Review Forum 2010
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In the Tarantino script, the character of Marcel is a French movie theater projectionist who works for the film's beautiful young female lead Shosannna.
Samuel L. Jackson Says ‘Oui’ To Tarantino’s ‘Inglorious’ Possibility » MTV Movies Blog 2008
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