ENGRAVING


Meaning of ENGRAVING in English

noun

COLLOCATIONS FROM CORPUS

■ NOUN

wood

The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife.

EXAMPLES FROM CORPUS

A figure moved slowly through the uncertain light towards him, as faceless and monumental as Death in an old engraving .

A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings, many of them of poor quality.

Crocker's engraving was published on l June 1802; five days later, aged 52, Charles the Cheesemonger died.

He ignored both the display cases and the safe which was concealed behind a framed eighteenth-century engraving of the City of London.

I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings.

Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.

Queequeg sees engravings on the coin which remind him of the tattoos on his body.

The first of these was wood engraving , done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife.

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