rotogravure
Americannoun
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a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
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a print made by this process.
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a section of a newspaper consisting of pages printed by the rotogravure process; magazine section.
noun
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a printing process using a cylinder etched with many small recesses, from which ink is transferred to a moving web of paper, plastic, etc, in a rotary press
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printed material produced in this way, esp magazines
Etymology
Origin of rotogravure
1910–15; < German Rotogravur, originally in the name of a Berlin printing firm ( Rotogravur Deutsche Tiefdruck Gesellschaft ), allegedly formed from the names of two other firms, Rotophot and Deutshe Photogravur AG; cf. photogravure, rotary
Example Sentences
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He appeared on the front cover of the Seattle Sunday Times color rotogravure Pictorial for Nov. 7, 1954.
From Seattle Times ● Mar. 30, 2017
However, photographs could not be printed in newspapers or books because the half-tone, rotogravure technology would not come into being until two decades later.
From Salon ● May 29, 2011
An image that before looked on video like a pale watercolor now has the qualities of a rotogravure print: a precise photochemical pointillism that seems very specific to the 1920s.
From New York Times ● Jan. 15, 2011
At Owls Nest last fortnight they amiably tennised, golfed, drove, posed in romantic silhouets for the rotogravure sections.
From Time Magazine Archive
I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.
From " The Great Gatsby" by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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