engraving
nounEtymology By surface analysis, engrave + -ing.
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Media, Printing, Publishing The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
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A print produced from an engraving.
- He looked round the poor room, at the distempered walls, and the bad engravings in meretricious frames, the crinkly paper and wax flowers on the chiffonier; and he thought of a room like Father Bryan's, with panelling, with cut glass, with tulips in silver pots, such a room as he had hoped to have for his own.1918, W[illiam] B[abington] Maxwell, chapter X, in The Mirror and the Lamp, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC:
- He stood transfixed before the unaccustomed view of London at night time, a vast panorama which reminded him […] of some wood engravings far off and magical, in a printshop in his childhood.1963, Margery Allingham, “Foreword”, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:
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Entertainment, Lifestyle, Music The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
- Derived terms
- electroengraving, wood engraving