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Meaning of Emboss | Babel Free

Noun CEFR B1
ɪmˈbɒs

Definitions

Synonym of boss (“a knob or projection”).

obsolete, rare, transitive

Equivalents

العربية إنقش
Català gofrar
Čeština vyrazit
Deutsch prägen
Bahasa Indonesia embos
Italiano coniare
日本語 彫り上げる
Македонски гравира кове се пени украси

Examples

“In this [the piazza of St. Peter's Basilica in the Vatican City] is a fountaine out of which gushes a river rather than a streeme, which ascending a good height breakes upon a round embosse of marble into millions of pearles that fall into the subjacent basons with greate noise; I esteem this one of the goodliest fountaines I ever saw.”

CEFR level

B1
Intermediate
This word is part of the CEFR B1 vocabulary — intermediate level.
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