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ostmark

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ost⋅mark

  [awst-mahrk, ost-]
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–noun
(formerly) a cupronickel coin and monetary unit of East Germany: replaced by the Deutsche mark in 1990.
Origin:
1945–50; < G: east mark
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ost·mark   (ôst'märk', ŏst'-)   
n.  A former monetary unit of East Germany worth 100 pfennigs.

[German : Ost, east (from Middle High German ōst, ōsten, from Old High German ōstan; see aus- in Indo-European roots) + Mark, mark (from Middle High German marke, marc; see mark2).]
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