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Definition of: marque
(märk) noun
A license of reprisal upon an enemy, as at sea in wartime: chiefly in the phrase letter of marque. [<F, mark, imprint, stamp <Provençal marca seizure <marcar seize as a pledge <marc a pledge <Gmc. Akin to MARK1.]
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