zincograph

American  

[zing-kuh-graf, -grahf] / ˈzɪŋ kəˌgræf, -ˌgrɑf /

noun

1. (formerly) a zinc plate produced by zincography.

2. a print from such a plate.

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Etymology

Origin of zincograph

First recorded in 1885–90; zinc + -o- + -graph

Example Sentences

At the time of the Prince's visit the walls of Acapulco were plastered with rough zincograph prints of Avaro Obregon, a soldierly looking Mexican, whose election for President was voted upon the Sunday before the Renown put in to that port.

From Project Gutenberg

The three volumes of manuscript have been photographed page by page and a zincograph facsimile of the original will be placed before scholars, a work the casual announcement of which has already whetted the appetites of not a few antiquarians.

From Project Gutenberg

There is honour, heaped, extravagant, imperial for the good—the employer of labour, the builder of stores, the spender of money; there is abuse, savage and outrageous, for the bad, the man who 'buys out of the town,' the man who intends to go, the sitter on the fence; with persuasion and invitation in prose, verse, and zincograph for all that outside world which prefers to live in cities other than Ours.

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