: a brand or make of a product (such as a sports car)
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The Italian marque entered 2025 as a team on the up, a notion which has been put to be in the first five races of the season.—Dan Cancian, Forbes.com, 24 Apr. 2025 Pink Floyd sold over 250 million records The Rock and Roll Hall of Famer’s garage contains marques that would make any carnut drool with jealousy.—Peter Lyon, Forbes, 24 Mar. 2025 According to the German marque, the car likely would’ve gone a few seconds faster with the PDK dual-clutch transmission, but setting the manual-transmission record was part of the point.—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 17 Apr. 2025 The rest of the cars in the marque’s lineup, including the new F80, the Purosangue, and the 12Cilindri, will see prices go up but not more than 10 percent.—Erik Shilling, Robb Report, 28 Mar. 2025 See All Example Sentences for marque
Word History
Etymology
Noun (1)
Middle English, from Anglo-French, from Old Occitan marca, from marcar to mark, seize as pledge, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German marcōn to mark
Noun (2)
French, mark, brand, from Middle French, from marquer to mark, of Germanic origin; akin to Old High German marcōn to mark
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