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engraving
Part of speech: NounThe act, process, or art of producing designs, etc., cut in, or in relief on, metal, etc.; a design or inscription so cut; an impression from an engraved plate.
Usage examples "engraving":- Smith's plates, in his " Ancient London," show the back and west wing of the asylum very well; and an elevation showing its front, which looked north towards what is now the London Institution, is represented in an engraving frequently met with in the print shops. - "Chapters in the History of the Insane in the British Isles", Daniel Hack Tuke.
- When he returned he found her standing with her face carefully turned to the wall in front of a commonplace engraving, which seemed to be demanding from her the most meticulous study. - "The Turnstile", A. E. W. (Alfred Edward Woodley) Mason.
- While my father and I were exploring about together yesterday, we came to a print- shop, whose window exhibited an engraving of Reynolds's Mrs. Siddons as the Tragic Muse, and Lawrence's picture of my uncle John in Hamlet. - "Records of a Girlhood", Frances Ann Kemble.