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gravure

NOUN
  1. an intaglio print produced by gravure
  2. the act of intaglio printing
  3. a printing plate used in the process of gravure
  4. a printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print

How To Use gravure In A Sentence

  • Printing on aluminum foil can be accomplished by any commercial process, including rotogravure, flexography, lithography, and letterpress.
  • On the top of the page was a photogravure of a beautiful woman, tall, with a mass of curly black hair and thick dark eyebrows, standing straight-backed in a white dress, staring out of the page in a way that reminded Ruby of Mama. DIAMOND RUBY
  • Contenant les procédés et nouvelles découvertes, la fabrication du minium, celle d'une nouvelle substance pour la couverte, celle des couleurs vitrifiables, l'art d'imprimer sur faïence et porcelaine, et un vocabulaire de termes techniques et chimiques: avec gravures ... The Creation of Color in Eighteenth-Century Europe
  • A photogravure of the baptistery-chapel in 1897 shows the structure exactly as it stands today, but illustrations of the three large mosaics in the same publication differ significantly from the finished works.
  • Mills may have paid a record price, but Goupil still owned the copyright, which enabled him to reproduce the composition again in 1877 as a photogravure.
  • Manuscripts by Leonardo dispersed throughout Europe, and to reproduce the highly important original sketches they contain, by the process of "photogravure". The Notebooks of Leonardo Da Vinci — Volume 1
  • In the mid 19th century, Scottish photographers were among the first to use the variety of photographically linked techniques such as the calotype, daguerreotype and photogravure.
  • At the Gallerie Laage-Salomon, Moffatt's series ‘Landanum’ exploited the photogravure in order to depict a complex homoerotic drama between two women separated by race, age and class.
  • In the photogravure process, the image is photochemically transferred to an etching plate that has been coated with a light-sensitive emulsion.
  • Mr. Petit, using the pseudonym Yvon, took exquisite postcard photographs of Paris that he had run off in England on a gravure press in lots of 10,000. Looking Inside and Out
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