marseilles

name

1. (alt-of, alternative)Alternative spelling of Marseille: the capital city of Bouches-du-Rhône department, France; the capital city of the region of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur.

   “We see documentary footage (the trudging homeless) and an animated map—an inky line movies from Paris to Marseilles, from there to Oran, and finally to Casablanca, where the lucky ones escape via Lisbon and the rest “wait…and wait…and wait.””

2. A city in LaSalle County, in northern Illinois, United States.

noun

1. (uncountable)A kind of fabric made from two series of threads interlacing each other, thus forming a double cloth, quilted in the loom.