MARISE.  A French form of Latin Marisa (q.v.), a feminine form of Maris (q.v.), meaning "of the sea."

    Once that little hand had not been so white.  There had been no leisure for manicuring nails, and polishing them to the sheen of pink coral.  There had been no rings--no lorgnettes monogramed with rose diamonds.  That was before the "Marise" days; before clever Mums had linked together in the French way her daughter's name of Mary Louise (after father and mother) and begun training the girl into superlative beauty and grace for the stage... (Vision House, Williamson, 1921).