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''etching'' ▫ᴱᴺ｜Definition｜1st｜20260628200147-00-⌔
etching - Wiktionary, the free dictionary
English
Noun
etching (plural etchings)
- (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.
- ✤ Hypernym: intaglio
- ✤ Hyponyms: aquatint, mezzotint
- ✤ Coordinate term: engraving
- (countable) The image created by this process.
- ✤ “My tastes,” he said, still smiling, “incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet.” And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: “I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I’d rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don’t like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […].”1
Verb
etching
- present participle and gerund of etch
Pronunciation
- IPA: /ˈɛt͡ʃ.ɪŋ/
- Audio (US): 🔊
- Rhymes: -ɛtʃɪŋ
Printed 2026-06-28.
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Link to original Footnotes
1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: ↩
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