• Engraving

    Noun

    engraving

    (plural engravings)
    1. The practice of incising a design onto a hard, flat surface, by cutting grooves into it.
    2. An engraved image.
      • 1918, W. B. Maxwell, The Mirror and the Lamp Chapter 10, 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.
      • 1963, Margery Allingham, The China Governess Chapter Foreword, 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.
    3. (music)  The art of drawing music notation at high quality, see Engraving (music).

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    Verb

    engraving
    1. Present participle of engrave
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