ostmark
noun
(formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
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ostmark
American
[awst-mahrk, ost-]
/ ˈɔstˌmɑrk, ˈɒst- /
noun
Ostmark
British
/ ˈɒstˌmɑːk, ˈɔstmark /
noun
Etymology
Origin of ostmark
1945–50; < German: east mark
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Last week's agreement between the two countries to start immediate negotiations to replace the East German ostmark with the West German deutsche mark provided the starkest reminder yet of the downside of unification.
From Time Magazine Archive
On the parish church in small Konigsbrunn, northwest of Vienna in Germany's Ostmark, the white-&-gold banners of the papacy fluttered in the Sunday morning sunlight.
From Time Magazine Archive
Their glossy-headed young pilots turned them north, over Ostmark, over Bohemia-Moravia, over German Poland and East Prussia and up the Baltic to the besieged shores of Finland.
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Policing their district undoubtedly constitutes a strain on Heinrich Himmler's Gestapo, which has plenty to do in glum Ostmark and will have plenty more to do in raped Poland.
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The 75-year-old regent for a nonexistent king, the admiral of a nonexistent fleet, stood with his host at the outsize picture window, looking down toward Salzburg and the Ostmark, once called Austria.
From Time Magazine Archive
For the contemporary novel constantly takes for its subject the emancipation of woman, or the fight for culture, the protection of the Ostmark, or the fight against alcohol.
From The German Classics of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Volume 01 Masterpieces of German Literature Translated into English. by Kuno Francke
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