Crossword clues for remarque
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Remarque \Re*marque"\, n. Also Remark \Remark\ (Engraving)
A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken; also, any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate.
A print or proof so distinguished; -- commonly called a Remarque proof.
Wiktionary
n. 1 (cx engraving English) A small design etched on the margin of a plate and supposed to be removed after the earliest proofs have been taken. 2 (cx engraving English) Any feature distinguishing a particular stage of the plate. 3 (cx engraving English) A print or proof distinguished by such a mark.
Usage examples of "remarque".
They included, among German writers, Thomas and Heinrich Mann, Lion Feuchtwanger, Jakob Wassermann, Arnold and Stefan Zweig, Erich Maria Remarque, Walther Rathenau, Albert Einstein, Alfred Kerr and Hugo Preuss, the last named being the scholar who had drafted the Weimar Constitution.
Remarque records a German playing the theme from Beethoven's Fidelio that depicts the prisoners -- unjustly held by a tyranny -- as they are at last, for a moment, let up to see the light -- playing this as a team of Jewish concentration camp victims are led down the street past his house.
In 1929 a few critics accused Remarque of sensationalizing the war in chapters like this one, of deliberately trying to shock readers to sell more books.