Engraving

Definitions

1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard surface, by cutting grooves into it.
   countable, uncountable
2. The art of producing an image from an engraved printing form, typically made of copper.
   countable, uncountable
3. A print produced from an engraving.
   countable
4. The art of drawing music notation at high quality, particularly on a computer.
   countable, uncountable

Equivalents

Examples

“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⟳.”

“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.”

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