marish
[mar-ish]Archaic.
- a marsh.
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Origin of marish
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When king Richard saw the earles companie was passed the marish; he did command with all hast to set vpon them.
Remember the marish mosses in the rotting fosse which encircled the "Moated Grange."
Claret and Olives, from the Garonne to the RhoneAngus B. Reach
Early the next morning we mounted the hill along a wooden footway, bridging one marish spot after another.
The Works of Robert Louis Stevenson - Swanston EditionRobert Louis Stevenson
Three thousand mares of his the marish grazed, Each suckling with delight her tender foal.
The Iliad of HomerHomer
marish
- obsolete marshy; swampy
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French marais marsh
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Word Origin and History for marish
n.
"a marsh," early 14c., mares, from Old French marois "marshland, bog" (12c., Modern French marais), from Frankish *marisk or some other Germanic source akin to marsh.
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