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plural marques
A license to pass the limits of a jurisdiction, or boundary of a country, for the purpose of making reprisals; a letter of marque. examples
A brand or make of a manufactured product, especially of a motor car (in contradistinction to a model). quotations examples
The group wants Rover as its luxury marque and MG as the performance car.
2001 January 31, Nicholas Bannister, “BMW's unofficial input into new MGs”, in The Guardian
And there seems to be an intrinsic disconnect between a high-end marque and the utilitarian nature of an S.U.V.
2020 December 3, Brett Berk, “The S.U.V.-ification of Everything Comes to Classic British Marques”, in The New York Times
A ship commissioned for making captures. examples