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French; spirit distilled from the fermented residue of grape skins, stalks, and seeds after the grapes have been pressed for wine making. The same as grappa (Italian), bagaciera (Portugal), and aguardiente (Spain). Often a harsh raw spirit, drunk young, although some varieties (especially marc de Bourgogne) are matured and smooth.

[MARK; Fr. MAHR] 1. The residue (skins, pits, seeds, etc.) remaining after the juice has been pressed from a fruit, usually grapes. 2. A potent eau de vie distilled from this mixture. It's the French counterpart to grappa.

[MARK; MAHR] 1. A French term (known as pomace in English) for the residue (skins, pips, seeds, etc.) remaining after the juice has been pressed from the grapes. 2. A potent eau de vie distilled (see distillation) from this mixture. It's the French counterpart to grappa (the name used in Italy and California).

Tutor's tip: The bottles were a collector's item because they displayed the "mark" (an imprint) the baron's thumb had made, after slipping into "marc" (the residue of pressed fruit, such as grapes).

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For MARC, the library cataloging standard, see MARC standards. For other uses, see Marc (disambiguation).

MARC (Mailing list ARChive) is a computer-related mailing list archive. It archives over 31 million e-mails from over 2400 mailing lists, with approximately 320,000 new mails added per month. The archive is hosted by the companies 10East (formerly called the AIMS Group) and KoreLogic, and is maintained by a group of volunteers led by Hank Leininger.

MARC was founded in 1996 to serve as a unified archive of electronic mailing lists, similar to what DejaNews (now Google Groups) did for Usenet.

MARC uses a MySQL relational database to store its messages and Perl to access the data. The archive can be searched for mailing list names, authors, subject lines and full-text of the e-mail messages.

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