remarque
Pluralremarques
- 1A tiny extra drawing in the edge of a printing plate, usually scraped off after the first prints.
Like a small doodle an artist erases before printing the real copies.
The engraver sketched a tiny remarque of a rose along the edge of the plate.
Before the main run, he scraped the remarque off the copper plate.
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- 2A printed copy that still shows the small extra drawing in the plate's margin.
Like an early printing of a book that has a small extra picture later editions dropped.
She framed a beautiful remarque she had bought at the gallery.
This old remarque shows a tiny ship sketched in the corner.
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- 3Any mark or detail that shows which stage a printing plate had reached.
Like a stamp that tells you which version of something you have.
Each remarque helped the printer tell one stage of the plate from another.
A small remarque in the corner showed it was an early version.
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Origin
This word comes from the French word "remarque."