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
Equally proud of their wine and cheese, the Burgundians marry white wine or marc to d'Epoisses in making confits with that name.
From The Complete Book of Cheese by Robert Carlton Brown
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
A separate study led by Marc Tittgemeyer, PhD, and his colleagues provided additional evidence.
From Science Daily ● Nov. 9, 2026
It also later emerged former defender Marc Cucurella's barber had revealed on social media that Pedro and Cole Palmer would miss a trip to Brighton last season after discussing the matter with his client.
From BBC ● Nov. 9, 2026
Lloyd Doggett and Marc Veasey will be filled, respectively, by Rep. Greg Casar, who ran for Doggett’s Austin seat after his own district was scrambled, and former Rep. Colin Allred.
From Salon ● Nov. 5, 2026
Since ending his show, “WTF With Marc Maron,” the comic has been rediscovering the mundane routines that make up a life.
From Los Angeles Times ● Nov. 4, 2026
She would stop by and see Marc son of Marc, who had a little boy named Marc, too.
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
Jaclyn Hartman, MDOT’s chief financial officer, said Wednesday the additional money for the Purple Line debt could come from other state transit revenue, not just MARC.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 12, 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
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
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
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
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
Mamma, having five to pay for, owed fifteen marcs.
From From Plotzk to Boston by Israel Zangwill
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