MARQUE


Meaning of MARQUE in English

1. n. a make of motor car, as distinct from a specific model (the Jaguar marque).

Etymology: F, MARK(1) 2. n. hist.

Phrases and idioms:

letters of marque (or marque and reprisal)

1. a licence to fit out an armed vessel and employ it in the capture of an enemy's merchant shipping.

2 (in sing.) a ship carrying such a licence.

Etymology: ME f. F f. Prov. marca f. marcar seize as a pledge

Oxford English vocab.      Оксфордский английский словарь.