Definition of "marque" []

• A model or brand of a manufactured product, especially an automobile. (noun)

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• "The marque is worth $66. 4-billion (U.S.), according to a study by global market researcher company Millward Brown Optimor."
• "We had the honour of sharing with Louisiana the picturesque gentleman pirate Lafitte, who was said by his enemies to make love or to scuttle a ship with equal success, and by his friends to be a seigneur with letters of marque from the French government."
• "You really ought to consider chartering your boat to groups of Privateers, we’ll get letters of marque from the Japanese government and hunt the greenies."