Noun marchioness has 2 senses
  1. marchioness - the wife or widow of a marquis
    --1 is a kind of
    wife, married woman
  2. marchioness, marquise - a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
    --2 is a kind of Lady, noblewoman, peeress
    --2 has particulars:
     Maintenon, Marquise de Maintenon, Francoise d'Aubigne, Madame de Maintenon; Montespan, Marquise de Montespan, Francoise-Athenais de Rochechouart; Pompadour, Marquise de Pompdour, Jeanne Antoinette Poisson
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