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marquise

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A permanent roof-like shelter over an entrance to a building.
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In the vast dimness of the curtained drawing-room, the little man, resembling a black bolster, leaned towards a couch, his hat on his knees, and gesticulated with a fat hand at the elongated, gracefully-flowing lines of the clear Parisian toilette from which the half-amused, half-bored marquise listened with gracious languor.
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Dolly took Tanya and Grisha to a children's ball at the Sarmatskys': Tanya was a French marquise.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, Leo View in context
Thus the captain touchingly recounted the story of his love for a fascinating marquise of thirty-five and at the same time for a charming, innocent child of seventeen, daughter of the bewitching marquise.
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