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  marais

  noun

  a swamp or bayou.
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  Marais

  noun

  Marin 1656–1728, French viola da gamba player and composer.

marais

¹ American  

[mah-rey, ma-re] / mɑˈreɪ, maˈrɛ /

noun

Gulf States (chiefly Louisiana).

marais plural

1. a swamp or bayou.

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Marais ² American  

[ma-re] / maˈrɛ /

noun

1. Marin 1656–1728, French viola da gamba player and composer.

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Other Word Forms

Noun Inflected Forms

• marais
  plural

Etymology

Origin of marais

1785–95; < North American French, French; Old French mareis < Old Low Franconian *marisk; see marsh

Example Sentences

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Mon Dieu! catch me going over the marais to-night.

From The Book of Were-Wolves by Baring-Gould, S. (Sabine)

Between the marais and the Mississippi, the spring rains were a perpetual danger.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

We were now in the marais, an amphibious stretch of country, cut up into gardens and only accessible by tiny canals.

From In the Heart of the Vosges And Other Sketches by a "Devious Traveller" by Betham-Edwards, Matilda

They could hear the frogs croak in the marais; it was dry, and the water was getting low.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

They knew every path, marais, and rigolé for miles around, and took their course eastward, correctly judging that the Indians would follow the line of the bluffs and go north.

From The Chase of Saint-Castin and Other Stories of the French in the New World by Catherwood, Mary Hartwell

No-one has ever been convicted of carrying out the six killings inside and outside the Jo Goldenberg restaurant in the historically Jewish Marais quarter of Paris, in which more than 20 other people were wounded.

From BBC ● Apr. 17, 2026

Eloise Marais, professor of atmospheric chemistry and air quality at University College London, agreed.

From BBC ● Mar. 10, 2026

Eloise Marais, a professor of atmospheric chemistry at University College London not involved in the new study, told AFP the research was "really important".

From Barron's ● Feb. 19, 2026

“We immediately went into the store and put everything in the cartons and we left,” said Guillaume Alcan, whose French shoe company Odaje sold its products in BHV Marais.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Dec. 18, 2025

He wanders for miles along the famous boulevards, through the Marais, arriving after many wrong turns at the Picasso Museum.

From "The Namesake" by Jhumpa Lahiri