etching
noun/ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
1
The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
2
The image created by this process.
- "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects;[…]."1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Derived terms
- abdominal etching, cryoetching, electroetching, etching scribe, photoetching, someone's etchings