marquise

[ UK /mˈɑːkwa‍ɪz/ ]
NOUN
  1. permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
  2. a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
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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.
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