From Longman Dictionary of Contemporary Englishldoce_084_aengravingen‧grav‧ing /ɪnˈɡreɪvɪŋ/ noun 1 [countable]AVD a picture made by cutting a design into metal, putting ink on the metal, and then printing it2 [uncountable]AVD the skill of engraving things
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engraving• He ignored both the display cases and the safe which was concealed behind a framed eighteenth-century engraving of the City of London.• A figure moved slowly through the uncertain light towards him, as faceless and monumental as Death in an old engraving.• Pech-Merle also contains some of the relatively rare engravings of human female forms.• Crocker's engraving was published on l June 1802; five days later, aged 52, Charles the Cheesemonger died.• Queequeg sees engravings on the coin which remind him of the tattoos on his body.• A plethora of books of topographical views at home and abroad used steel engravings, many of them of poor quality.• I came one day on a folder full of tinted engravings.• The first of these was wood engraving, done on the end-grain of boxwood with a burin rather than a knife. 