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• marais
  marais

  noun

  a swamp or bayou.
• Marais
  Marais

  noun

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

marais

¹ American  

[mah-ray, 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

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Etymology

Origin of marais

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

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Example Sentences

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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 S. (Sabine) Baring-Gould

Much of the land it enclosed was not built upon; the marais on the north bank were drained and cultivated for market and fruit gardens.

From The Story of Paris by Katherine Kimball

Acclimatised in the middle of that vast marais, its malaria had for them neither terror nor danger.

From The Guerilla Chief And other Tales by Mayne Reid

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

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

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 Mary Hartwell Catherwood

One night, at Eataly’s flagship location in the Marais, the drag queen Le Filip, a winner of “Drag Race France,” hosted bingo with her whippet Azur.

From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 14, 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

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