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Webster 1913 Edition


Mareis

Mar′eis

,
Noun.
A Marsh.
[Obs.]
Chaucer.

Definition 2024


mareis

mareis

Old French

Alternative forms

  • maresc
  • marois

Noun

mareis m (oblique plural mareis, nominative singular mareis, nominative plural mareis)

  1. marsh
    • circa 1250, Marie de France, Yonec
      devers le burc sunt li mareis
      in front of the city are the marshes

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