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It's a variant of Marquis. Technically, marquise is the feminine form of the title marquis. Marquis is title of nobility -- from the Old French word marchis "march, borderland" It originally referred to someone who ruled on the borderlands of a region.

So a Marquise is the wife or widow of a Marquis.

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