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Emboss

Noun CEFR B1
ɪmˈbɒs

Definitions

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

obsolete, rare, transitive

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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

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