marquise
- n a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
- n permanent canopy over an entrance of a hotel etc.
- He has only one love, the marquise, and she is less a companion than a rival.
- As the marquise, porcelain-cheeked Dana Wynter, whose "lovely hands drooped down like lilies on either side," coped with blackmail and adultery with equally exquisite calm.
- But the marquise was broke.