▪ I. ‖ remarque
(rəmark)
[F.: cf. remark n.2]
In Engraving, a distinguishing feature indicating a certain state of the plate, usually consisting in the insertion of a slight sketch in the margin. Also attrib. in remarque-proof.
| 1882 Artist 1 Feb. 58/2 A remarque on a plate is an evidence of the artist's caprice. 1889 Pall Mall G. 12 Mar. 3/1 The print-buying world is becoming daily more and more aghast at the encroachments of the remarque. 1890 F. G. Kitton Charles Dickens by Pen & Pencil I. iv. facing p. 49 Charles Dickens, his wife and her sister—1843... Remarque: Miss Mary Hogarth. 1925 C. Morley Thunder on Left vii. 80 If they're girls, how mothers hurry to drill and denature those bright dreaming wits. They love them chiefly because they make so pretty a vignette in the margin of their own self-portrait—like a remarque in an engraving. |
Hence reˈmarque v., to insert as a remarque.
| 1884 Pall Mall G. 12 Mar. 3/1 Lane's portrait of Dickens and George Cattermole's large portrait so largely ‘remarqued’ beneath. |
▪ II. remarque
obs. form of remark n.1 and v.1