marc

¹

[ mahrk; French 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.

Marc

²

[ mahrk; German mahrk ]

noun

1. Franz [f, r, ahnts], 1880–1916, German painter.
2. a male given name, form of Marcus.

MARC

³

[ mahrk ]

noun

, Library Science.

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

Marc

¹

/ mark /

noun

1. MarcFranz18801916MGermanARTS AND CRAFTS: painter 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

marc

²

/ mɑːk; mar /

noun

1. the remains of grapes or other fruit that have been pressed for wine-making
2. a brandy distilled from these

Word History and Origins

Origin of marc¹

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

Origin of marc²

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of marc¹

C17: from French, from Old French marchier to trample (grapes), march ¹

Example Sentences

I had a second marc after the coffee.

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 were exotic bottles such as Framboise, Calvados, and Poire Williams, and drinks I’d later come across in Hemingway—Campari, Armagnac, Pernod, marc—as well as liqueurs in garish colors, such as Chartreuse.

From The New Yorker

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

From New York Times

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