Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- n. See marchioness.
- n. See marquee.
- n. A finger ring set with a pointed oval stone or cluster of pointed oval stones.
- n. A pointed oval shape of a gem.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. In France, the wife of a marquis; a marchioness.
- n. A small parasol or sunshade, usually of silk and often trimmed with lace, in use about 1850.
- n. In gem-cutting, an ellipsoidal double-pointed form of cut which has been used extensively for diamonds and the more brilliant stones, although many of the common stones, such as amethysts, etc., are now cut in this way. Also called navette.
- n. A light shelter over an entrance doorway: usually carried on brackets or cantalivers, more rarely on slender posts. The roofing itself is often of glass.
- n. Same as marquee.
Wiktionary
- n. A marchioness, especially one who is French
- n. A marquee
- n. jewelry An oval cut diamond with pointed ends
- n. A canopy, usually of glass, set as a shelter over a door opening onto a terrace or pavement
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The wife of a marquis; a marchioness.
WordNet 3.0
- n. a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
- n. permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
Etymologies
- From French marquise (Wiktionary)
- French, feminine of marquis, marquis; see marquis. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Louis XIV had already given her pensions and gifts of money in appreciation for her care of his children, and in February of the next year he conferred upon her the title marquise de Maintenon.”
“The "little marquise" is said to have died in child-bed at the Hague, in 1661.”
Letters from Dorothy Osborne to Sir William Temple (1652-54)
“Though the marquise was a handsome and clever woman, her rivals took delight in comparing her with her sister-inlaw, with all the more point because the countess was a dozen years younger.”
“Wits, authors, poets, artists, statesmen, whose words could change the fate of Europe, were proud to call the marquise friend.”
“The marquise was the wife of the man, who broke his plighted faith to the young Fraulein Van Hoogstraten.”
“Notwithstanding an evil report circulated against her by Mme. d'Espard, the princesse told Daniel d'Arthez that the marquise was her best friend; she was related to her.”
“The marquise found Desgrais at the appointed spot: he gave her his arm then holding her hand in his own, he gave a sign, the archers appeared, the lover threw off his mask, Desgrais was confessed, and the marquise was his prisoner.”
“Then the doctor, who had mounted with a step less firm than hers, came and knelt beside her, but turned in the other direction, so that he might whisper in her ear -- that is, the marquise faced the river, and the doctor faced the Hotel de Ville.”
“As the house of the marquise was the very last at which, after the manner of his leaving it the day before, the chevalier was expected at such an hour, he got in with the greatest ease, and, meeting a lady's-maid, who was in his interests, was taken to the room where the marquise was.”
“Mason and Slidell" fame, a "marquise," in thread lace and velvet, her sisters, the Misses Deslonde, "peasant girls of France.”
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Off label definitions
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The Kindest Cut
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