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La Marque

  [luh-mahrk]
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–noun
a city in SE coastal Texas. 15,372.

marque

1  [mahrk]
–noun
1. letter of marque.
2. Obsolete. seizure by way of reprisal or retaliation.
Origin:
1375–1425; late ME < MF < Pr marca seizure by warrant (orig. token) < Gmc; see mark 1

marque

2  [mahrk]
–noun
a product model or type, as of a luxury or racing car.
Origin:
1905–10; < F: lit., mark, sign, n. deriv. of marquer to mark, prob. dial. deriv. of OF merc, merche boundary, boundary marker < ON merki (from same Gmc base as march 2 , mark 1 , marque 1
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marque   (märk)   
n.  A model or brand of a manufactured product, especially an automobile.

[French, from Old French; see marquetry.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
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Word Origin & History

marque 
"seizure by way of reprisal," 1447, in letters of marque "official permission to capture enemy merchant ships," from Anglo-Fr. mark (1354), from O.Prov. marca "reprisal," from marcar "seize as a pledge, mark," probably from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. marchon "delimit, mark;" see mark (1)), but the sense evolution is difficult.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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