Mart vs Marc - What's the difference?
mart | marc |
A market.
* (William Cowper)
(obsolete) A bargain.
* 1616 ,
(obsolete) To buy or sell in, or as in a mart.
* Shakespeare
(obsolete) To traffic.
The refuse matter that remains after fruit, particularly grapes, has been pressed.
An alcoholic spirit distilled from the marc of grapes.
* 1929 , (Ernest Hemingway), A Farewell to Arms , Folio Society 2008, p. 298:
* 1974 , (Lawrence Durrell), Monsieur , Faber & Faber 1992, p. 60:
(obsolete) A weight of various commodities, especially of gold and silver, used in different European countries. In France and Holland it was equal to eight ounces.
(obsolete) A coin formerly current in England and Scotland, equal to thirteen shillings and four pence.
(obsolete) A German coin and money of account; the mark.
(Webster 1913)
As a proper noun mart
is march (third month of the gregorian calendar) or mart can be mar (march).As a noun marc is
march.mart
English
Etymology 1
Ultimately from (etyl) mercatus; see market.Noun
(en noun)- Where has commerce such a mart as London?
- Now I play a merchant's part, and venture madly on a desperate mart .
Verb
(en verb)- To sell and mart your officer for gold / To undeservers.
Etymology 2
(etyl) Mars (stem Mart- ).Anagrams
* ----marc
English
Etymology 1
From (etyl) marc.Noun
(en-noun)- There were a few men in the café sitting with coffee and glasses of kirsch or marc on the tables.
- The fire was restoked and the army of wine-bottles gave way to a smaller phalanx of brandies, Armagnacs and Marcs , to offset the large bowls of coffee from which rose plumes of fragrance.