marais
1 Americannoun
plural
maraisnoun
Etymology
Origin of marais
1785–95; < North American French, French; Old French mareis < Old Low Franconian *marisk; marsh
Example Sentences
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La rivière coule à travers un marais où l'on a construit une chaussée longue et étroite.
From The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 10 Asia, Part III by Hakluyt, Richard
Il y a là-bas aussi, dans le marais, un petit lac où, l'année passée, j'ai vu un canard, mais un canard sauvage!
From Normandy Picturesque by Blackburn, Henry
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
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)
"My 'ouse is yond'; dans le marais là-bas."
From Old Creole Days by Cable, George Washington
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