emboss
[em-baws, -bos]
- to raise or represent (surface designs) in relief.
- to decorate (a surface) with raised ornament.
- Metalworking. to raise a design on (a blank) with dies of similar pattern, one the negative of the other.Compare coin(def 10).
- to cause to bulge out; make protuberant.
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Origin of emboss
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Contemporary Examples
It features on its front and back covers an intricate “original” design, embossed in gold.
One car accident was embossed on our minds as definitive and pivotal.
The Price of Being a Patton: Wrestling With the Legacy of America’s Most Famous GeneralTim Teeman
May 26, 2014
The cover is embossed with a gold symbol that might escape notice.
Historical Examples
The walls are hung with blue Florentine silk, embossed in silver.
The SpendersHarry Leon Wilson
Breaking it open she drew out an embossed and gilded card—a ticket.
The Free LancesMayne Reid
Then it would take a turn at embossed tin lids for candy boxes.
The Good SoldierFord Madox Ford
His brother remained engrossed with the embossed head of Medusa.
The room in which he was standing was furnished in embossed leather.
At the Time AppointedA. Maynard Barbour
embossed
- having a moulded or carved decoration or design on the surface so that it is raised above the surface in low relief
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emboss
- to mould or carve (a decoration or design) on (a surface) so that it is raised above the surface in low relief
- to cause to bulge; make protrude
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Word Origin
C14: from Old French embocer, from em- + boce boss ²
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