Meaning of Etching | Babel Free

Definitions

1. The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
   uncountable
2. The image created by this process.
   countable

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Examples

“"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;[…]."”

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