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margarique: margaric
margaritifère: margaritiferous, pearl-bearing
margaritique: margaritic
margay: margay
marge: margin (of paper, etc); markup (percentage or amount added to buy-in price)
marge bénéficiaire: profit margin
marge commerciale: the difference between sale price and purchase price
marge d'erreur: margin of error (expression of the lack of precision in the results obtained from a sample); margin of error, elbow room
marge de manœuvre: elbow room, wiggle room (freedom or leeway)
marge de solvabilité: solvency margin
margelle: brink, edge; stone forming the edge of a well or fountain
marger: to margin (to give something a margin)
marginal: marginal (written in the margin of a book); margin, edge, marginal; fringe, fringy (outside the mainstream); secondary (of lesser importance)
marginal: dropout, misfit (person that chooses to live on the fringes of society)
marginale: a woman that chose to live on the fringes of society; dropout, misfit
marginalement: marginally
marginalisation: marginalization
marginaliser: to marginalise (to relegate to the margins; to exclude socially or otherwise)
marginalisme: marginalism
marginalité: marginality; nonconformism
marginer: to marginate
marginée: a type of geometrid moth
margose: bitter melon
margouillat: common agama (Agama agama)
margousier: bead tree
margrave: a margrave
margrave: margravine
margraviat: margravate
marguerite: marguerite (Leucanthemum); messenger
marguerite des Canaries: Paris daisy (Argyranthemum frutescens (L.) Sch. Bip.)
marguerite du Cap: blue daisy bush (Felicia amelloides (L.) Voss.)
marguerite géante: max chrysanthemum (Leucanthemum maximum (Ramond) DC.)
marguiller: post-1990 spelling of marguillier
marguillier: churchwarden
mari: husband
mari: cannabis, marijuana
mari complaisant: mari complaisant
mariable: marriable; weddable
mariage: marriage; wedding; union
mariage arrangé: arranged marriage
mariage blanc: sham marriage, marriage in name only; white marriage
mariage civil: civil marriage
mariage de convenance: marriage of convenience
mariage homosexuel: gay marriage; gay wedding
mariage pluvieux, mariage heureux: Rain on one's wedding day brings good luck.
mariage religieux: religious marriage
mariage républicain: republican marriage
marial: Marian
marianiste: Marianist
marianiste: Marianist
marier: to marry, to marry off; to perform or cause the marriage of; to wed, to marry (one's spouse); to get married, to wed
marieur: matchmaker; cupid (for weddings)
marigot: creek (in West Africa), marigot; a group of people in fierce competition
marihuana: alternative spelling of marijuana
marijuana: marijuana, cannabis
marimba: marimba
marin: maritime; marine
marin: seaman
marin: navy
marin d'eau douce: landlubber, freshwater seaman