单词 | marais |
释义 | maraisn. North American (chiefly Canadian and U.S. regional) (southern). A swamp, a marsh. ΘΚΠ the world > the earth > land > landscape > marsh, bog, or swamp > [noun] marsheOE fenc888 sladec893 moorOE mossOE marshlandlOE lay-fena1225 lay-mirea1225 moor-fenc1275 flosha1300 strother?a1300 marish1327 carrc1330 waterlanda1382 gaseync1400 quaba1425 paludec1425 mersec1440 sumpa1450 palus?1473 wash1483 morass1489 oozea1500 bog?a1513 danka1522 fell1538 soga1552 Camarine1576 gog1583 swale1584 sink1594 haga1600 mere1609 flata1616 swamp1624 pocosin1634 frogland1651 slash1652 poldera1669 savannah1671 pond-land1686 red bog1686 swang1691 slack1719 flowa1740 wetland1743 purgatory1760 curragh1780 squall1784 marais1793 vlei1793 muskeg1806 bog-pit1820 prairie1820 fenhood1834 pakihi1851 terai1852 sponge1856 takyr1864 boglet1869 sinkhole1885 grimpen1902 sphagnum bog1911 blanket bog1939 string bog1959 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). < n.1793 |
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