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[Glossary](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary) · Cuts and shapes

# Marquise cut

Also called marquise, navette

A marquise cut is an elongated brilliant pointed at both ends.

## In more detail

It is the most stretched common outline, with two points, so it is the hardest to cut without a bow-tie. GIA's marquise guide says that marquises typically show some bow-tie. But our Marquise and DG-Bowtie share a 2.06-to-1 outline and 87 facets, and only DG-Bowtie has a band. The points need protection in a setting, usually V-prongs.

## On a grading report

No GIA cut grade; measurements as length × width × depth.

## Related terms

- [Fancy shape](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/fancy-shape): A fancy shape is any diamond outline other than round, such as oval, pear, marquise, cushion, princess or emerald.
- [Bow-tie](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/bow-tie): A bow-tie is a dark band across the belly of an oval, pear, marquise or other elongated stone. It is not an inclusion or a color: the facets there send little light back to the viewer.
- [Head](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/head): The head, or end, is each end of an elongated stone such as an oval, pear or marquise. On a marquise the ends are points.
- [Keel](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/keel): The keel is the short line at the bottom of the pavilion of an elongated stone, such as a marquise. A round has a point there.
- [Pear cut](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary/pear-cut): A pear cut is a brilliant with one rounded end and one point, halfway between an oval and a marquise.

## Learn more

- [Marquise Cut](https://digitalgemology.com/cuts/marquise)
- [The bow-tie effect in diamonds: what it is](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/bow-tie/bow-tie-effect-in-diamonds)
- [Which diamond shapes get a bow-tie: oval, pear, marquise and more](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/bow-tie/which-diamond-shapes-have-a-bow-tie)
- [Fixing a bow-tie: the steep belly of DG-Bowtie](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/bow-tie/how-to-fix-a-bow-tie)

[All 328 terms](https://digitalgemology.com/learn/glossary)