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 marc left on expression of the oil is said to be largely used in the manufacture of chocolate.
From Scientific American Supplement, No. 717, September 28, 1889 by Various
In the second place, we find the same phenomenon in connection with "bank-money" at times—I would refer especially to the premium on the marc banko of the Hamburg Girobank.
From The Value of Money by Benjamin M. Anderson
Moises Caicedo, Marc Cucurella, Mac Allister and Joao Pedro were all sold for a profit in excess of £25m each.
From BBC ● Oct. 8, 2026
Before Marc Lamont Hill was helping elevate the conversation on one of the country’s biggest podcasts, I watched him school Bill O’Reilly as a Fox contributor and Temple University professor.
From Salon ● Oct. 8, 2026
Fast, often free shipping is “now the floor—not the ceiling—for every category of retail,” said Marc Iampieri, a leader of logistics and transportation at AlixPartners, a consulting firm.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 30, 2026
Those executives include the co-heads of the firm’s behemoth global banking and markets division Dan Dees and Ashok Varadhan and Marc Nachmann, global head of asset and wealth management.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 28, 2026
But Marc son-of-Marc father-of-Marc, who’s the tallest man in our town, only came up to the middle of his chest.
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
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
It seemed that most of the people had never taken MARC, a Maryland commuter line, before or used the balky machine to buy a ticket.
From Washington Post ● Mar. 16, 2016
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
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
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
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
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
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