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Meanings of gravure in English
Portuguese
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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.
Synonyms
Examples for "photogravure"
Examples for "photogravure"
1
Each volume will contain a photogravure frontispiece reproduction of the original title.
2
The photogravure process is costly both in the plate-making and in the printing.
3
Shoulder-high beside him hung the photogravure that had already saved his life once.
4
Directly opposite him upon the wall was a dark-toned photogravure of a hunting scene.
5
Therefore, as he spelled out the reading-matter beneath the photogravure, he was sharply disappointed.
Usage of gravure in English
1
The Printing Ink segment is engaged in the manufacture and sale of gravure ink, offset ink and newspaper ink.
2
They climbed the broad stone steps together and passed under the lofty gravures into the garden, and I waited.
3
Joe himself was off sick after working for 17 years in the Standard Gravure printing plant in Louisville, Kentucky.