"wood engraving" meaning in English

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Noun

Forms: wood engravings [plural]
Head templates: {{en-noun|~}} wood engraving (countable and uncountable, plural wood engravings)
  1. A variation of the woodcut method executed with a different tool (burin) and different wood (end grain), allowing for more detailed images. Tags: countable, uncountable Categories (topical): Printing Translations (detailed variation of woodcut): gravure sur bois [feminine] (French), xylogravure [feminine] (French), Holzstich [masculine] (German), Holzriss [masculine] (German)
    Sense id: en-wood_engraving-en-noun-hamu0a7Q Disambiguation of Printing: 55 45 Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header, English entries with topic categories using raw markup, English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 88 12 Disambiguation of English entries with topic categories using raw markup: 80 20 Disambiguation of English terms with non-redundant non-automated sortkeys: 79 21 Disambiguation of 'detailed variation of woodcut': 92 8
  2. (countable) A print taken from such an engraving. Tags: countable Categories (topical): Printing
    Sense id: en-wood_engraving-en-noun-gOZQQy7- Disambiguation of Printing: 55 45

Inflected forms

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