Marchioness
[,mɑːʃə'nes;'mɑːʃ(ə)nɪs] or [,mɑrʃə'nɛs]
Definition
(noun.) a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess.
(noun.) the wife or widow of a marquis.
Edited by Jeanne--From WordNet
Definition
(n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Edited by Craig
Examples
- He will be marquis some day, and there is no denying that she would make a good marchioness: she looks handsomer than ever in her mourning. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- Mother's not here, or the Marchioness--or anybody but me. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Marchioness shook her head reprovingly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Between the Marchioness and the natural and tender regard of mother for children, there was that cruel barrier placed of difference of faith. William Makepeace Thackeray. Vanity Fair.
- Did you see the Marchioness o' Granby, Sammy? Charles Dickens. The Pickwick Papers.
- I think she didn't want the Marchioness to know. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- I am the Marchioness Manson. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He heard a murmur of skirts beside him, and the Marchioness Manson fluttered out of the drawing-room window. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- The Marchioness Manson shook her head softly. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- He advanced toward the Marchioness and Newland with his usual half-sneering smile. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- But, good heavens, to forgive is one thing; to go back into that hell-- Ah, yes, the Marchioness acquiesced. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Dr. Carver inclined his leonine head, and the Marchioness continued: Ah, New York--New York--how little the life of the spirit has reached it! Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- Ah, the Marchioness murmured, without visible resentment. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- And Harriette Wilson had refused to become Marchioness of Worcester, to be waited for in a corner by a vile sugar-baker! Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- The Marchioness replied by one of her queer foreign jerks, and a Que voulez-vous? Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
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