Meanings of copper-plate in English

The name was not engraved in copper-plate, but printed in heavy type.

This is the scene that figures in the old copper-plate engravings.

And silk in bales, and boxes of copper-plate, one of which I saw opened.

That the landscape was adapted from a copper-plate of Lucas van Leyden signifies nothing.

Below, in copper-plate, was engraved the name, Mr. Esper Indiman.

But you write such a beautiful hand, that your writing will look like copper-plate.

Please pardon this typewritten note, but my own hand, unlike your copper-plate, is absolutely illegible.

Mendelssohn, the well-balanced, the precise, wrote like copper-plate.

Having prepared the copper-plate, well rub it with salt and water, and then with the silvering powder.

Harrison Miller took it, on hotel stationery, covering the carefully numbered pages with his neat, copper-plate writing.

Mr. Wade glanced up and down the closely written columns, which were like copper-plate-anastounding mass of figures.

I knew an American whose copper-plate visiting card bore this impressive legend: "Lieutenant-Colonel in the Royal Infantry."

The famous engraver Visser executed a likeness on copper-plate of the grim malefactor as he appeared in his boor's disguise.

And that ye can make sun-dials, and prent folks' names upon their waggons almost like copper-plate, with beautiful flourishes, and great long tails.

Before those sat his chiefest men in like order in his arbor-like house. This is the scene that figures in the old copper-plate engravings.

The copper-plate engravings in my father's library were the first things I sought out, especially those representing scenes in the history of the world.