Maquis
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Pronunciation /ˈmakiː/ · Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Maquis is a noun meaning (botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
Meaning
(botany) Dense Mediterranean coastal scrub.
More Meanings
- (historical) The French resistance movement during World War II, or other similar movements elsewhere.
Example Sentences
By this time O.S. membership numbered some 4,500, and many of those who escaped imprisonment either fled abroad or formed the nucleus of a growing maquis in the more inaccessible parts of the country.
The older man claims to find a measure of peace in Corsica’s wild landscape, and as Mitchell explores the foothills of maquis, fragrant with “the sharp resinous smell of laurel rose and thyme,” he too succumbs.
For many weeks after I finished Bodyguard of Lies, Alan Turing stuck in my mind. He seemed so incongruous a figure to be mixed up with the cut-throat maquis and sinister double-agents who populated the rest of the book.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include macchia, matorral, mallee, camass, marram, myrtetum.
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