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1. (n.pl.) Marquesas Islands
a group of French islands in the S Pacific. 6000; 480 sq. mi. (1245 sq. km).
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1. (noun) Marquesas Islands, Iles Marquises
a group of volcanic islands in the south central Pacific; part of French Polynesia
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1. marquesas islands
a group of 13 small volcanic mountainous islands in the S. Pacific, 3600 m. W. of Peru, under French protection since 1842, are peopled by a handsome but savage race, which is rapidly dying out; Chinese immigrants grow cotton; the more southerly were discovered by Mendaña in 1595, the more northerly by Ingraham, an American, in 1791.
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