marc

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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

The Cubists' subject matter was drawn from the life they lived as virtually penniless men�in studios, on the street, or swigging a marc at some cafe.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

I had a second marc after the coffee.

From "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway

The marc of olives after the oil has been expressed, indeed, the refuse cake of all oil plants, is most valuable, either as manure or for feeding cattle.

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.