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US
/ɪnˈɡɹeɪvɝ/
]
[ UK /ɛnɡɹˈeɪvɐ/ ]
[ UK /ɛnɡɹˈeɪvɐ/ ]
NOUN
- a skilled worker who can inscribe designs or writing onto a surface by carving or etching
- a printmaker who prints from an engraved printing plate
How To Use engraver In A Sentence
- _Apelles_, the greatest of Greek painters, floruit circa 332 B.C. _Pyrgoteles_, one of the most famous gem-engravers of Greece. The Apologia and Florida of Apuleius of Madaura
- As the firm's engraver, he requires an artistic eye and a considerable amount of strength.
- Among his other skills, he was renowned as an engraver both in wood and in copperplate.
- The wood engraver uses a hardwood, generally box, sawn across the grain of the wood and highly polished.
- However, often engravers’ and enamellers ' signatures do appear.
- Max, a goldsmith and engraver, established a company that manufactured costume jewelry.
- Reproductive photography of this sort remains bound to its function as the artist's record, as the engraver's aide-memoire, and as the low-quality alternative to the burin.
- We have a veteran engraver here.
- Rubens sometimes used monochrome techniques in sketching compositions for engravers.
- Émile Reynaud's father was an horologer and medal engraver, and the Reynaud home was full of mysterious objects to fascinate the young Émile.
