wood engraving
English
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Noun
wood engraving (countable and uncountable, plural wood engravings)
- A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images.
- Coordinate term: woodcut
- Hypernym: relief printing
- (countable) A print taken from such an engraving.
Translations
detailed variation of woodcut
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Further reading
wood engraving on Wikipedia.Wikipedia