noun
Marches
MAHT-shihz
noun
1
Border regions historically set up to guard a frontier, especially between England and Wales or England and Scotland.
"The Welsh Marches were once a lawless buffer zone between two kingdoms."
How to Use Marches
Learner’s notesIn plain EnglishHistoric frontier territories, most famously along the England-Wales and England-Scotland borders.
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The Welsh _____ were once a lawless buffer zone between two kingdoms.