marc
noun
the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
marc
1 American
[mahrk, ma r ]
/ mɑrk, mar /
noun
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marcs
plural
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the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.
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(in France) the brandy distilled from this residue.
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Pharmacology. the residue that remains following the extraction of active principles from a vegetable drug by means of a solvent.
Marc
2
American
[mahrk, mahr k]
/ mɑrk, mɑrk /
MARC
3
American
[mahrk]
/ mɑrk /
noun
Library Science.
marc
1
British
/ mɑːk, mar /
noun
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the remains of grapes or other fruit that have been pressed for wine-making
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a brandy distilled from these
Marc
2
British
/ mark /
noun
Other Word Forms
Noun Inflected Forms
Etymology
Origin of marc1
1595–1605; < Middle French, akin to marcher to tread; see march 1
Origin of MARC3
ma(chine) r(eadable) c(atologing)
Example Sentences
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There’s even a cocktail that uses marc, the little-loved French answer to grappa.
From New York Times ● May 8, 2015
I told him to take the flowers of the Pyrenees away and bring me a vieux marc.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
I had a second marc after the coffee.
From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway
Hence to the west-north is that land which is called Angleland, Sealand, and some part of Den- marc; to the north is Apdrede, and to the east-north the wolds, which are called the Heath-wolds.
From Discovery of Muscovy by Richard Hakluyt
The fresh refuse, or marc, after the extraction of the spirit is also attractive to animals.
From Natural History of the Mammalia of India and Ceylon by Robert Armitage Sterndale
Khosla Ventures, Blackstone and Marc Benioff are among the investors putting $200 million into the startup.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 16, 2026
Under the gentle questioning of Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff, Amodei made an analogy.
From MarketWatch ● Sep. 16, 2026
Salesforce Chief Executive Marc Benioff and hedge-fund manager Brad Gerstner are among the angel investors in the round.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 15, 2026
The BBC's AI correspondent Marc Cieslak answered viewers questions about the technology.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
No more poking her head in our huts or chasing Marc son-of-Marc son-of-Marc around.
From "The Inquisitor's Tale" by Adam Gidwitz
In the 1960s it pioneered “machine-readable cataloging,” or MARC, launching the digitization of library catalogs and a nationwide automated library network.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Nov. 25, 2025
It became clear that a freight-rail strike would strand some transit commuters, including, in the Washington area, 7,000 VRE passengers and thousands more who ride MARC.
From Washington Post ● Sep. 14, 2022
He strongly urged people to use transit such as MARC, Amtrak, Metro and buses only for essential travel.
From Washington Times ● Mar. 19, 2020
From the Academy Award–winning director of “Icarus,” Bryan Fogel, comes “The Dissident,” a portrait of slain Washington Post journalist Jamal Khashoggi, at 2:30 p.m. at the MARC.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 24, 2020
ADDENDA Misfiled, dropped in copyright or, we goofed; BRANDEL, MARC.
From Checklist A complete, cumulative Checklist of lesbian, variant and homosexual fiction, in English or available in English translation, with supplements of related material, for the use of collectors, students and librarians. by Marion Zimmer Bradley
This pope, for some marcs of silver, acknowledged, as king of Sicily, Frederick II. a child of three years, son of the emperor Henry VI.
From The Power Of The Popes by Pierre Claude Fran?ois Daunou
Also to the daughters of Mr. Codyngton, and 10 marcs to poor scholars.
From Shakespeare's Family by C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael) Stopes
We stayed with them forty-seven days, and obtained from them 119 marcs of pearls for very little merchandise in exchange.
From The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career by Bartolom? de las Casas
Mamma, having five to pay for, owed fifteen marcs.
From From Plotzk to Boston by Israel Zangwill
Berkeley receives 200 marcs and Chaucer 100; the sums are to be paid out of the war subsidy voted by Parliament the year before.
From A Literary History of the English People From the Origins to the Renaissance by Jean Jules Jusserand
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