Marque (disambiguation)
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Marque may refer to:
- marqueBrandThe American Marketing Association defines a brand as a "Name, term, design, symbol, or any other feature that identifies one seller's good or service as distinct from those of other sellers."...
, or brand name - A letter of marqueLetter of marqueIn the days of fighting sail, a Letter of Marque and Reprisal was a government licence authorizing a person to attack and capture enemy vessels, and bring them before admiralty courts for condemnation and sale...
, authorising a privateer - MarquesBark MarquesThe Marques was a British-registered barque that sank during the Tall Ships' Races in 1984.The Marques was built in Valencia, Spain, in 1917, as a polacca-rigged brig. She was used to carry fruit from the Canary Islands to northern Europe. Damaged during World War II, she was repaired in 1947 and...
, a tall shipTall shipA tall ship is a large, traditionally-rigged sailing vessel. Popular modern tall ship rigs include topsail schooners, brigantines, brigs and barques. "Tall Ship" can also be defined more specifically by an organization, such as for a race or festival.... - A SpanishSpanish languageSpanish , also known as Castilian , is a Romance language in the Ibero-Romance group that evolved from several languages and dialects in central-northern Iberia around the 9th century and gradually spread with the expansion of the Kingdom of Castile into central and southern Iberia during the...
form of MarquisMarquessA marquess or marquis is a nobleman of hereditary rank in various European peerages and in those of some of their former colonies. The term is also used to translate equivalent oriental styles, as in imperial China, Japan, and Vietnam... - "Marquesan", people or things connected to the Marquesas IslandsMarquesas IslandsThe Marquesas Islands enana and Te Fenua `Enata , both meaning "The Land of Men") are a group of volcanic islands in French Polynesia, an overseas collectivity of France in the southern Pacific Ocean. The Marquesas are located at 9° 00S, 139° 30W...
People
- Marqués (disambiguation), a surname
- Marque (artist)Marque (artist)Marque is an Austrian pop artist. He has released albums on the Polydor and Edel Music labels. In 2000 he had two top-five singles in the Austrian charts.-2000 "Freedomland":Singles:*"One To Make Her Happy" 2000 +*"Electronic Lady" 2001...
, an Austrian pop singer - Marques HoustonMarques HoustonMarques Barrett Houston is an American R&B singer, songwriter, rapper, and actor. A member of the R&B singing group Immature/IMx until 2002, he went solo in 2003. He is also the cousin of J-Boog, former member of the R&B/Hip-Hop group B2K....
, an American R&B singer and actor
Places
- The Marque (river), a tributary of the Deûle in France
- Marques, Seine-MaritimeMarques, Seine-MaritimeMarques is a commune in the Seine-Maritime department in the Haute-Normandie region in northern France.-Geography:A small farming village situated in the Pays de Bray, some southeast of Dieppe at the junction of the D920, the D302 and the D102 roads....
, a town in France