marc

¹ American  

[mahrk, mar] / mɑrk, mar /

noun

1. the grapes contained in the wine press and the residue, as skins and pips, remaining after the juice is expressed.

2. (in France) the brandy distilled from this residue.

3. Pharmacology. the residue that remains following the extraction of active principles from a vegetable drug by means of a solvent.

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Marc ² American  

[mahrk, mahrk] / mɑrk, mɑrk /

noun

1. Franz 1880–1916, German painter.

2. a male given name, form of Marcus.

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MARC ³ American  

[mahrk] / mɑrk /

noun

Library Science.

1. a standardized system developed by the Library of Congress for producing and transmitting machine-readable bibliographic records.

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marc ¹ British  

/ mɑːk, mar /

noun

1. the remains of grapes or other fruit that have been pressed for wine-making

2. a brandy distilled from these

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Marc ² British  

/ mark /

noun

1. Franz (frants). 1880–1916, German expressionist painter; cofounder with Kandinsky of the Blaue Reiter group (1911). He is noted for his symbolic compositions of animals

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Etymology

Origin of marc¹

1595–1605; < Middle French, akin to marcher to tread; march ¹

Origin of MARC³

ma(chine) r(eadable) c(atologing)

Example Sentences

There’s even a cocktail that uses marc, the little-loved French answer to grappa.

From New York Times • May 8, 2015

The Cubists' subject matter was drawn from the life they lived as virtually penniless men�in studios, on the street, or swigging a marc at some cafe.

From Time Magazine Archive

I had a second marc after the coffee.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

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

Sheep eat whatever is put before them—fig leaves, marc, even straw.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

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