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the Marchioness of [place]
在英国贵族头衔中，marchioness 常以 the Marchioness of + 地名 的形式出现，此时首字母大写。
The Marchioness of Bath attended the fundraising dinner.
巴斯侯爵夫人出席了筹款晚宴。
侯爵夫人；侯爵遗孀
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侯爵夫人；侯爵遗孀
the wife or widow of a marquis
The Marchioness of Bath attended the fundraising dinner.
巴斯侯爵夫人出席了筹款晚宴。
侯爵夫人。
The wife of a marquess.
拥有侯爵头衔的女性。
A woman holding the rank of marquess in her own right.
The marchioness welcomed the guests at the castle gate.
侯爵夫人在城堡门口迎接客人。
Several marchionesses attended the queen's garden party.
几位侯爵夫人出席了女王的花园聚会。
She became a marchioness after marrying the marquis.
她嫁给侯爵后成为侯爵夫人。
在英国贵族头衔中，marchioness 常以 the Marchioness of + 地名 的形式出现，此时首字母大写。
The Marchioness of Bath attended the fundraising dinner.
巴斯侯爵夫人出席了筹款晚宴。
marchioness 既可指侯爵的妻子或遗孀，也可指拥有侯爵爵位的女性。
She became a marchioness after marrying the marquis.
她嫁给侯爵后成为了侯爵夫人。
当强调女性本人拥有侯爵爵位而非因婚姻获得“侯爵夫人”称号时，常用 be created a marchioness 或 a marchioness in her own right。
She was created a marchioness in the New Year Honours.
她在新年授勋中被封为女侯爵。
Not this
She is a marquis, so she sits beside the duke.
Use this
She is a marchioness, so she sits beside the duke.
中文的“侯爵”不区分性别，但英语中男性称 marquis，女性或侯爵夫人称 marchioness；指这位女性时必须用 marchioness。
Not this
Two marchioness attended the royal banquet.
Use this
Two marchionesses attended the royal banquet.
two 后接可数名词复数，marchioness 的复数形式是 marchionesses（以 -s 结尾加 -es），不能用原形作复数。
Focus on the distinctions below. Other candidates are kept compact until a reliable usage note is available.
……侯爵夫人（贵族头衔）
The Marchioness of Bath welcomed the guests at the ball.
巴斯侯爵夫人在这场舞会上欢迎了宾客。
成为侯爵夫人
After she married the marquis, she became a marchioness.
嫁给侯爵后，她便成了侯爵夫人。
侯爵遗孀
The dowager marchioness continued to manage the estate after her husband died.
丈夫去世后，这位侯爵遗孀继续打理庄园。
以自身权利封授的女侯爵
Her family had no male heir, so she inherited the title and became a marchioness in her own right.
她的家族没有男性继承人，所以她继承了爵位，成为一位凭自身权利受封的女侯爵。
已故的侯爵夫人
The late marchioness was remembered for her charity work.
已故的侯爵夫人因她的慈善工作而被人们铭记。
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拆成 march + ioness，联想三月（March）的母狮（lioness），高贵威严如侯爵夫人。
语域：formal 常见场景：正式文书、历史与贵族语境、头衔介绍 该词多用于正式或历史语境，指侯爵夫人或女侯爵，日常口语中很少使用。
All listed words end in the spelling -ess, typically pronounced /ɪs/ in the final unstressed syllable, which matches the final -ess of marchioness. However, they are not full rhymes: marchioness stresses /ɑː/ in the first syllable, while these words have different stressed vowels (/aʊ/, /ʌ/, /æ/, /ɪ/, /oʊ/, /æ/). Use them as spelling-pattern comparisons, not rhymes.
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