Marais

Quick meaning: Marais is a noun meaning A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.

Meaning

A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.

More Meanings

1. plural of marai

Example Sentences

[…] unexpected eyes the color of lilac-blue water orchids, or of maraises under a blue sky, those sudden, clear, circular ponds in the short-turfed flatlands of the Louisiana prairie.

[…] and when rains filled the maraises, and the cold nor'westers blew from Texas and the sod was spongy with much water, and he went out for feathered game, the numberless mallards, black ducks, gray ducks, teal - […]

First of all, on the East, in that part of the Town which still takes its name from the marais or marsh in which Camulogenes entangled Cæsar, there was a collection of palaces, the mass of which extended to the waterside.

[…] and as all along the sea-coast, at least in those parts where I have resided, there has always been a vast extent of marais, or marsh, which has been bien communal, the poorer classes experienced no obstacle to their living in this manner. And no porte d'arme is required.

Word Forms

• maraises

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include fen, marsh, marshes, swamp, wetlands, marques.

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