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Borrowed from French marque. Doublet of mark.

marque (plural marques)

  1. A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque.
  2. A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model).

    • 2001 January 31, Nicholas Bannister, “BMW's unofficial input into new MGs”, in The Guardian‎[1]:

      The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car.

    • 2020 December 3, Brett Berk, “The S.U.V.-ification of Everything Comes to Classic British Marques”, in The New York Times‎[2], →ISSN:

      And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V.

  3. A ship commissioned for making captures.

From Middle French marque (15th c.), deverbal from marquer, which see for more. Related with marc (“a weight”), mark (“a currency”), marche (“frontier”).

marque f (plural marques)

  1. mark (spot)
  2. brand (of a company)
  3. mark (on one's body, e.g. a birthmark)

marque

  1. inflection of marquer:
    1. first/third-person singular present indicative/subjunctive
    2. second-person singular imperative

marque

  1. inflection of marcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative

marque

  1. inflection of marcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative
  • IPA(key): /ˈmaɾke/ [ˈmaɾ.ke]
  • Rhymes: -aɾke
  • Syllabification: mar‧que

marque

  1. inflection of marcar:
    1. first/third-person singular present subjunctive
    2. third-person singular imperative