gravure
Americannoun
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an intaglio process of photomechanical printing, such as photogravure or rotogravure.
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a print produced by gravure.
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the metal or wooden plate used in photogravure.
noun
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a method of intaglio printing using a plate with many small etched recesses See also rotogravure
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See photogravure
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matter printed by this process
Etymology
Origin of gravure
1875–80; < French, equivalent to grav ( er ) to engrave < Germanic ( see grave 3) + -ure -ure
Example Sentences
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And in gravure printing, contact between the printer head and the substrate can damage underlying layers.
From Nature ● Nov. 22, 2016
The development of gravure printing made high-quality, mass- production print runs possible.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
Just as digital technology today has exploded our knowledge of the world so the technology of gravure opened up our Sunday reading.
From The Guardian ● Jul. 30, 2011
Moreover, a new printing technique called gravure had arisen to fill a growing need for fast color printing.
From Time Magazine Archive
Papillon, in his Traité de la gravure en bois, has given an elaborate, but, as usual with him, a very faulty description of these engravings.
From The Dance of Death Exhibited in Elegant Engravings on Wood with a Dissertation on the Several Representations of that Subject but More Particularly on Those Ascribed to Macaber and Hans Holbein by Francis Douce
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