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Webster 1913 Edition

Exergue

Ex-ergue′

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Noun.
[F., fr. Gr. [GREEK] out + [GREEK] work; lit., out work, i. e., accessory work. See
Work
.]
(Numis.)
The small space beneath the base line of a subject engraved on a coin or medal. It usually contains the date, place, engraver’s name, etc., or other subsidiary matter.
Fairholt.

Webster 1828 Edition

Exergue

EXER'GUE

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Noun.
[Gr. work.] A little space around or without the figures of a medal, left for the inscription, cipher, device, date, &c.

Definition 2024

exergue

exergue

English

Noun

exergue ‎(plural exergues)

  1. (numismatics) A space beneath the main design on a coin or medal for the insertion of the date or other minor inscription.
    • 1839, Edgar Allan Poe, ‘William Wilson’:
      In childhood I must have felt with the energy of a man what I now find stamped upon memory in lines as vivid, as deep, and as durable as the exergues of the Carthaginian medals.

Translations

French

Noun

exergue m ‎(plural exergues)

  1. exergue
  2. inscription
  3. epigraph

Etymology

From French exergue.

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