What is "marquises"

Usage examples of "marquises".

The rest are counts, marquises, and barons of the usual kind, some from Piedmont and some from Savoy.

In a quarter of an hour five or six ladies of the highest rank arrived, with ten or twelve dukes, princes, and marquises, to say nothing of a host of distinguished strangers.

You could breed American-born marquises with chicken feet and sell them to the circus.

His features were blue-blooded, and rightly so - given the presence of two marquises and a duke several branches up and over in his family tree.