graining
Britishnoun
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the pattern or texture of the grain of wood, leather, etc
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the process of painting, printing, staining, etc, a surface in imitation of a grain
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a surface produced by such a process
Example Sentences
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They had underestimated the resilience of the hard tyres – boosted by the higher temperatures on Sunday that reduced graining.
From The Guardian ● Oct. 28, 2019
Howard Jerome, 83, makes about $1,300 a month through a combination of social security and pension from a calcium graining plant where he was a foreman.
From Washington Post ● Jan. 5, 2018
Nohnan Lounsberry of Wilmington, for instance, received an 1873 patent for improving a machine for “pebbling and graining wet skins.”
From Washington Times ● Mar. 12, 2016
The movement, an automatic Dubois-Dépraz 9000, is decorated with circular graining on the bridges and a snailed côtes de Genève motif on the rotor.
From New York Times ● Apr. 25, 2013
Then I painted the ends of the corks to resemble the graining, and when it was done they could hardly be noticed a couple of feet away.
From The Lost Heir by Henty, G. A. (George Alfred)
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