marquise
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See also: Marquise
English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French marquise.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marquise (plural marquises)
- (chiefly historical) A marchioness, especially one who is French.
- Synonym: marchioness
- 2009 February 14, Emine Saner, “'She was a mass of contradictions - we all are'”, in The Guardian[1]:
- In 1986, she appeared in the stage adaptation of Les Liaisons Dangereuse opposite Alan Rickman, playing the manipulative marquise whose icy demeanour seems to have clung to Duncan's image like frost ever since, even though it is so at odds with her warmth in person.
- A marquee.
- (jewelry) An oval cut gemstone with pointed ends.
- (architecture) A canopy, usually of glass, set as a shelter over a door opening onto a terrace or pavement.
- 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter I, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- The house was a big elaborate limestone affair, evidently new. Winter sunshine sparkled on lace-hung casement, on glass marquise, and the burnished bronze foliations of grille and door.
- (historical) A style of parasol of the mid-19th century.
- (cooking) A rich dessert made with dark chocolate, butter, sugar, cocoa powder, eggs, and cream.
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- chocolate marquise on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Feminine of marquis.
Pronunciation
[edit]Noun
[edit]marquise f (plural marquises)
- marchioness (a member of foreign nobility)
- (by extension) a type of finger-ring
- (architecture) awning, marquee (projecting canopy over an entrance)
- Synonym: auvent
Descendants
[edit]- → Danish: markise
- → English: marquise
- → German: Markise
- → Ottoman Turkish: ماركیز (markiz)
- Turkish: markiz
- → Persian: مارکیز (mârkiz)
- → Portuguese: marquise, marquesa
- → Romanian: marchiză
Further reading
[edit]- “marquise”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Portuguese
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Borrowed from French marquise.[1][2]
Pronunciation
[edit]
- Hyphenation: mar‧qui‧se
Noun
[edit]marquise f (plural marquises)
- (Portugal, architecture) a glass veranda
- Synonym: marquesa
- (Brazil, architecture) canopy (overhanging or projecting roof structure)
References
[edit]- ^ “marquise”, in Dicionário infopédia da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Porto: Porto Editora, 2003–2024
- ^ “marquise”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024
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