Notorious marquis
The crossword clue "Notorious marquis" is answered by SADE, a 4-letter entry. Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Every figure on this page comes from the collection data itself, never from a guess.
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SADE
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Used 7 times across 6 distinct years; most recently in 2000; first recorded in 1969. It appears in 3 publications in the xd corpus. Frequency and last-seen figures come from the xd crossword corpus only.
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