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wood engraving
noun
1
: a relief printing surface consisting of a wooden block with a usually pictorial design cut in the end grain
2
: a print from a wood engraving
Examples of wood engraving in a Sentence
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Said there was a wood engraving by the artist Paul L. Kershaw in the bathroom showing a black-and-white picture of the Cairngorms and a bite of Shepherd’s words.
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Ailsa Ross, Longreads, 4 Apr. 2023
Famed illustrator Thomas Nast depicted some of them in a Harper's Weekly wood engraving, feeding, nursing and even carrying the wounded and bedraggled soldiers on their backs.
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Karl Kusserow, CNN, 3 May 2021
If his anatomy was a bit Gumbyish and his faces were little more than masks, his drawings had enough panache to survive the ossifying translation into wood engraving.
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Susan Tallman, The Atlantic, 6 Apr. 2022
There’s a little wood engraving by Edward Gordon Craig.
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Alexandra Schwartz, The New Yorker, 29 Sep. 2019
There are oil paintings, wood engravings, drawings, maps, costumes and photographs, but the show is especially rich in Homer’s ravishing watercolors.
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Sebastian Smee, Washington Post, 10 Sep. 2019
An 1868 wood engraving of Harriet Tubman by John Darby shows Tubman dressed as a scout for the Union Army holding a large rifle with her hands curiously placed over the barrel of the gun.
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Kim Sajet, Smithsonian, 23 Mar. 2018
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Word History
First Known Use
1816, in the meaning defined at sense 1
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“Wood engraving.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/wood%20engraving. Accessed 18 Aug. 2024.
Kids Definition
wood engraving
noun1
: a printing surface consisting of a design cut into a block of wood
2
: a print from a wood engraving
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