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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)

A melancholy flat was the marais, looking desolate enough by day, but now, in the gloaming, tenfold as desolate.

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

As to the Tahitian custom of burying the dead in the marais, see also C. E. Meinicke, Die Inseln des Stillen Oceans, ii.

From The Belief in Immortality and the Worship of the Dead Vol. II by Frazer, James George, Sir

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

That results in a small cooling effect for the planet, said Eloise Marais, an atmospheric chemist at University College London and one of the paper’s authors.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Jun. 11, 2026

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

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