marquise

How To Use marquise In A Sentence

• We're all expected to be there, and all the nobles will be there - lords, ladies, counts, viscounts, dukes, duchesses, barons, baronesses, and marquises; all of them.
• In any event, if the ‘marquise’ had a weakness for little boys, when she threw open to them the hypogean doors of those cubicles of stone in which men crouch like sphinxes, she must have been moved to that generosity less by the hope of corrupting them than by the pleasure which all of us feel in displaying a needless prodigality to those whom we love, for I have never seen her with any other visitor except an old park-keeper. Within a Budding Grove
• The strapless top of her wedding dress was pink taffeta over a high-waisted mauve marquisette cocktail-length skirt. Sinatra The Man Behind the Myth
• Nora has the dearest little pale green marquisette, mother," cried Grace Harlowe's Senior Year at High School
• She was perfectly cast as the marquise Eloise and her dry, deadpan humour was a joy to behold.
• Within four months the king made her marquise de Pompadour and pensioned her husband off to farm in the country.
• The chocolate marquise is fabulously simple, and if you wanted you could equally serve it frozen as a parfait.
• At the sides of the bosquet there were two tables of marble, on which a collation was served when the marquise came to her grove to see the waters play. The Story of Versailles
• On September 14th as Marquise de Pompadour she was formally presented at court.
• These families of counts and marquises proved long-lived, and over time played important roles in different regional and urban contexts.