Unscramble

m 3 a 1 r 1 c 3 h 4 i 1 o 1 n 1 e 1 s 1 s 1

11 letters · 18 points in Scrabble

Meaning

noun the wife or widow of a marquis

noun a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess

originFrom Medieval Latin marchionissa, feminine form of marchion, from Late Latin marca, from Frankish *markōn (“to mark, mark out, to press with the foot”), from Proto-Germanic *markō (“area, region, edge, rim, border”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 3.0

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