# remarque

Pronunciation: US say "ri-MAHRK" /ɹɪˈmɑɹk/; UK say "ri-MAHK" /ɹɪˈmɑːk/

## Noun

1. A small design etched into the margin of a printing plate, meant to be removed once the earliest proofs have been pulled.
   - Simple: A tiny extra drawing in the edge of a printing plate, usually scraped off after the first prints.
   - _She etched a delicate remarque of a sparrow in the plate's margin as a private signature._
   - _Most remarques were burnished away once the first few proofs had been taken._
2. A print or proof identified by the small marginal design that later impressions no longer carry.
   - Simple: A printed copy that still shows the small extra drawing in the plate's margin.
   - _The dealer sold a rare remarque from the first run of the engraving._
   - _Several remarques from that edition now hang in the museum._
3. Any feature that distinguishes a particular working stage of an engraving plate.
   - Simple: Any mark or detail that shows which stage a printing plate had reached.
   - _Experts use each remarque to identify which state of the plate produced a given print._
   - _The faint remarques along the edge marked successive stages of the engraving._

## Origin

Borrowed from French "remarque."

Source: DictionaryAI, https://dictionaryai.com/define/remarque (written from Wiktionary data, CC BY-SA 4.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/).