NOUN
- engraving on a steel plate
- an impression taken from an engraved steel plate
- the act of engraving on a steel plate
How To Use steel engraving In A Sentence
- Because many books were robbed of steel engravings to put into Granger's history, such mutilation came to be known as grangerizing.
- She had to mark you to get the sense of steel engraving across. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
- It had wonderful steel engravings and the Wild Hunt charging down the cover. Times, Sunday Times
- The publisher knew his public, so he gave a pound of book for every fifty cents, and crowded in plenty of wood-cuts and stamped the outside with golden bouquets and put in a steel engraving of the author, with a tissue paper veil over it, and "sicked" his multitude of broken-down clergymen, maiden ladies, grass widows, and college students on to the great American public. Mark Twain and the Old Time Subscription Book
- From a steel engraving framed in rosewood that hangs in my Uncle Wilkinson's parlour. Snap-Dragons: A Tale of Christmas Eve; and Old Father Christmas: An Old-Fashioned Tale of the Young Days of a Grumpy Old Godfather
- Several of the steel engravings hung on the left-hand wall were spoilt by foxing. FORESTS OF THE NIGHT
- He had the feeling that he could get inside it, and that in fact he was inside it, along with the mahogany bed and the gateleg table, and the clock and the steel engraving and the paperweight itself. Nineteen Eighty-four
- He had expected her to weep and give way to despair when it came to selling all their joyfully bought early Victorian treasures, their quaint objects of art, their antimacassars, bead mats, repp curtains, veneered furniture, gold-framed steel engravings and pencil drawings, wax flowers under shades, stuffed birds, and all sorts of choice old things; but it was she who made the proposal. Tales of Space and Time
- She had to mark you to get the sense of steel engraving across. CASCADES - THE DAY OF THE DEAD
