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marc

[mahrk, mar] / mɑrk, mar /
NOUN
brandy
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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

To sum up the question of manures:— Poonac, the marc or cake, after the coco-nut oil is expressed, is represented to be a stimulating manure; but is not durable.

From The Commercial Products of the Vegetable Kingdom Considered in Their Various Uses to Man and in Their Relation to the Arts and Manufactures; Forming a Practical Treatise & Handbook of Reference for the Colonist, Manufacturer, Merchant, and Consumer, on the Cultivation, Preparation for Shipment, and Commercial Value, &c. of the Various Substances Obtained From Trees and Plants, Entering into the Husbandry of Tropical and Sub-tropical Regions, &c. by Simmonds, P. L.

For food they are given wheat, barley, grape marc, and some times even lobsters and other such aquatic animals.

From Roman Farm Management The Treatises of Cato and Varro by Harrison, Fairfax

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 Brakelond, Jocelin de

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 Daunou, Pierre Claude Fran?ois

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 Jusserand, Jean Jules

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 Casas, Bartolom? de las

Also to the daughters of Mr. Codyngton, and 10 marcs to poor scholars.

From Shakespeare's Family by Stopes, C. C. (Charlotte Carmichael)




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