Crossword-Solution: EXERGUE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Exergue | n. | 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. |
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| Clue | Answers |
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| MEDAL space | 1 answer |
| space on the reverse of a coin or medal | 1 answer |
| hemline | 20 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EARTE
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with EXERGUE (5)
Toward the edge of the field are disposed the titles of his various works, as though radiating from the head, and in the exergue is his signature, framed by a half-garland over which extends a mace.
The lower part of the coin, which is separated by a line from the figures or the inscription, is the _basis_ or _exergue_, and contains subsidiary matter, as the date, the place where the piece was struck, etc.
Sur la demande de Monsieur Jefferson, ministre des États-Unis de l'Amérique, on a corrigé ainsi l'exergue de la médaille anciennement composée pour le général Morgan: FUGATIS CAPTIS AUT CÆSIS AD COWPENS HOSTIBUS, 17 JAN.
Jefferson, Minister of the United States of America, the exergue of the medal formerly composed for General Morgan was altered as follows: FUGATIS CAPTIS AUT CÆSIS AD COWPENS HOSTIBUS 17 JAN.
Legend: 'HOSTIBUS PRIMO FUGATIS.' Exergue: 'BOSTONIUM RECUPERATUM DIE XVII MARTII, MDCCLXXVI.'" I think it has the character of simplicity and dignity which is to be aimed at in a memorial of this kind, which is designed to transmit the remembrance of a great event to posterity.