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单词 marais
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maraisn.

Brit. /maˈreɪ/, U.S. /məˈreɪ/, Canadian English /məˈrei/
Inflections: Plural unchanged.
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French marais.
Etymology: < French marais marish n.The present word is distinguished from marish n. as a later unassimilated loan (compare early forms s.v.).
North American (chiefly Canadian and U.S. regional) (southern).
A swamp, a marsh.
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the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun]
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1793 J. Macdonell Diary in C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders (1933) 77 Opposite to this marais on the south shore there is a fine sandbank.
1807 R. Wilson Diary 4 July in Life (1862) II. viii. 293 We were galloping at speed when an unfortunate marais received my horse.
1839 Maysville (Kentucky) Eagle 18 Dec. 1/3 Among these is one appropriatly [sic] named ‘Clear Lake’, or the Grand Marais.
1853 S. A. Hammett Stray Yankee in Texas 56 Three miles below us was a ‘marais’ or slough.
1896 W. W. Clendenin Prelim. Rep. Florida Parishes E. Louisiana 177 The bayous, ‘marais’ and ‘coulees’ that meander through or extend across this ‘bluff’ area are very unlike the hastily developed drainage system of this formation in West Feliciana.
1933 C. M. Gates Five Fur Traders 77 (note) The French word marais means swamp or marsh. The phrase grand marais was descriptive of many places along the canoe routes of the Canadian Northwest and in early times was not used as a specific place name.
This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, September 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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