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 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
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
The specie of the realm of France, as I am banker enough to know, is not more than thirteen hundred millions of livres, allowing sixty-five livres to the marc.
From The Mississippi Bubble by Emerson Hough
Maresca also had to plug a hole in midfield by moving Marc Guéhi up from central defense.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
For a dozen years, Apollo Global Management CEO Marc Rowan has operated a side gig in Montauk: a seafood shack that draws celebrities and influencers with sunset views, Dom Pérignon and a $97 lobster salad.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 24, 2026
Pedro Porro was first choice right-back and, with Marcos Llorente and Marc Pubill also able to cover that position, Mingueza was left to rue what might have been.
From BBC ● Aug. 18, 2026
Arsenal made a move for Spain defender Marc Pubill but were told by Atletico Madrid that the 23-year-old is not for sale.
From BBC ● Aug. 13, 2026
For some reason Marc and Mark laugh harder now, and my eyes flit up to them.
From "Better Nate Than Ever" by Tim Federle
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
Public transit agencies in the Washington region, including Metro and commuter rail services VRE and MARC, also rescinded the requirement.
From Washington Post ● Apr. 19, 2022
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
His mother was in the air and headed to Sioux Falls 28 minutes after the hospital called MARC.
From Washington Times ● Nov. 22, 2015
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
He gave King Richard mdccc marcs that he might reside in England with the King's good will.
From The Chronicle of Jocelin of Brakelond: A Picture of Monastic Life in the Days of Abbot Samson by Jocelin de Brakelond
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
Mamma, having five to pay for, owed fifteen marcs.
From From Plotzk to Boston by Israel Zangwill
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
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