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UK
/mˈɑːkwaɪz/
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NOUN
- permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
- a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
How To Use marquise In A Sentence
- But Mell had said the Marquise had married a common man, and that she was disinherited for it.
- 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.
- The Persecution and Assassination of Reality as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Snatchland Under the Direction of the Marquises d 'Elite, after that nearly-eponymous work by Peter Weiss about the Marquis de Sade's career as a dramaturgist among the crazies. The Brussels Journal - The Voice of Conservatism in Europe
- The chocolate truffle torte with raspberries was an elegant offering, combining the virtues of a good British summer pudding with those of a silky French chocolate marquise.