remarque

¹

or re·mark

[ ri-mahrk ]

noun

, Fine Arts.

1. a distinguishing mark or peculiarity indicating a particular stage of a plate.
2. a small sketch engraved in the margin of a plate, and usually removed after a number of early proofs have been printed.
3. a plate so marked.

Remarque

²

[ ri-mahrk; German ruh-mahrk ]

noun

1. E·rich Ma·ri·a [er, -ik m, uh, -, ree, -, uh, ey, -, r, i, kh, mah-, ree, -ah], 1898–1970, German novelist in the U.S.

Remarque

¹

/ rɪˈmɑːk /

noun

1. RemarqueErich Maria18981970MUSGermanWRITING: novelist Erich Maria (ˈeːrɪç maˈriːa). 1898–1970, US novelist, born in Germany, noted for his novel of World War I, All Quiet on the Western Front (1929)

remarque

²

/ rɪˈmɑːk /

noun

1. a mark in the margin of an engraved plate to indicate the stage of production of the plate. It is removed before the plate is finished
2. a plate so marked
3. a print or proof from a plate so marked

Word History and Origins

Origin of remarque¹

From French, dating back to 1880–85; remark

Word History and Origins

Origin of remarque¹

C19: from French; see remark

Example Sentences

In 1937, Fitzgerald was brought in to take over the script for “Three Comrades,” an adaptation of the popular novel by Erich Maria Remarque.

From Los Angeles Times

“All Quiet on the Western Front” won four Oscars this year, including international feature, making this adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s classic German novel — about young soldiers enduring the horrors of World War I’s frontlines — one of Netflix’s most successful awards season movies ever.

From Los Angeles Times

The year after Erich Maria Remarque’s novel “All Quiet on the Western Front” was published in 1929, Lewis Milestone turned it into one of cinema’s most enduring bleak antiwar films, painting the German war effort as a hellish abattoir for idealist young men.

From New York Times

It is, however, the first filmed adaptation of Erich Maria Remarque’s seminal World War I novel in which the Germans actually speak German.

From Los Angeles Times

There’s an undeniable power in seeing Remarque’s once-serialized novel — an antiwar statement so definitive that it was duly banned by the Nazis a few years after its 1929 publication — brought to the screen in its original tongue.

From Los Angeles Times