marches

noun

1. (form-of, plural)plural of march

   “They settled in the border marches.”

verb

1. (form-of, indicative, present, singular, third-person)third-person singular simple present indicative of march

name

1. (form-of, plural)plural of March
2. Synonym of Marche: An administrative region in central Italy.
3. The lands in the vicinity of the Welsh-English border.

   “A good example is Wales and the Marches where most of the great landlords were absentees who, by the mid-fifteenth century, had allowed their administrative and judicial powers to slip into the hands of a corrupt squirearchy.”

   “The Marches also have areas of intensive farming, as well as extensive forestry plantations where nature is struggling to thrive.”

4. The lands in the vicinity of the Scottish-English border.

   “[…] sets forth the romantic story of 'the Laws of the Marches,' […] if a quarrel takes place on the Marches between the two countries [and someone dies], his body shall be brought to the Marches at the day and place within the appointed parts, […]”