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etching - Wiktionary, the free dictionary

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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

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Footnotes

  1. 1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC: ↩

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