1) Lady 2) Maintenon 3) Marquise 4) Montespan 5) Pompadour 1) Married woman 2) Titled lady 3) Wife 4) Wife of a marquis 
wife or widow of a marquis; Dick Swiveller gives the under-stairs maid in The Old Curiosity Shop the honorary title of marchioness.
[ship] The Marchioness was a 176 ton brigantine built at Waterford, Ireland in 1851 and registered at Melbourne that sailed between Nelson, New Zealand and Melbourne, Australia in the 1850s. The ship`s dimensions were 91.7 x 20 x 13 ft. It founded on rocks of the Taranaki coast in 1864 and was lost with no loss of life. ==First grounding== ...
• (n.) The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis.
Mar'chion·ess noun [ Late Latin marchionissa , from marchio a marquis. See Marquis .] The wife or the widow of a marquis; a woman who has the rank and dignity of a marquis. Spelman. 
[n] - the wife or widow of a marquis 2. [n] - a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess
marquise noun a noblewoman ranking below a duchess and above a countess