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

I told him to take the flowers of the Pyrenees away and bring me a vieux marc.

From Literature

T he Charlottesville violence erupted w he n white nationalists marc he d to protest against t he planned removal of a statue of Robert E. Lee.

From Time

Its value was expressed in the ecu de marc, a private currency used by this international network of bankers.

From BBC

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

From New York Times

The Macvin is 2 parts pinot noir and 1 part marc so it a nice balance.

From Forbes

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