marais
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4ADJ.
vast
VERB + MARAIS
name
MARAIS + NOUN
marsh
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from, in
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noun
A marsh; a marshy area, one intermittently covered with water, particularly in Louisiana, or in other French-speaking areas.
[…] 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.
[…] 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 - […]
name
A historical district in Paris, France.
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3[…] 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
Wiktionary[…] 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
WiktionaryFirst 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 exten
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