gravure

English

Etymology

Short for rotogravure.

Noun

gravure (countable and uncountable, plural gravures)

1. (art, printing) A type of intaglio printing process, in which an image is engraved onto a rotating copper cylinder.
   • 1916 March 25, Irvin S. Cobb, “"Unaccustomed as I am—"”, in Saturday Evening Post‎^[1]:

     for too long have the walls of our houses been adorned with examples of effete Old World portrait gravure.

   • 1964 December, “New Books”, in Modern Railways, page 429:

     THE POCKET ENCYCLOPAEDIA OF BRITISH STEAM LOCOMOTIVES. By O. S. Nock. Blandford Press. 18s.
     Mr. Nock, he remarks in his preface, was "incredulous" when the idea of this book of 192 colour gravure illustrations of a representative collection of British steam locomotives from Locomotion to BR's Evening Star was broached to him.

2. (Japan) A style of Japanese softcore; glamour photography.

Related terms

• autogravure
• photogravure
• pyrogravure
• rotogravure

 

Translations

printing method

• Catalan: gravat (ca) m
• Czech: hlubotisk (cs) m
• Finnish: syväpaino (fi)
• Greek: γκραβούρα (el) f (gkravoúra), χαλκογραφία (el) f (chalkografía)
• Romanian: gravură (ro) f

See also

• Rotogravure on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
• gravure idol on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Anagrams

• verruga

Dutch

Etymology

Borrowed from French gravure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɣraːˈvyː.rə/

• Audio

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• Hyphenation: gra‧vu‧re
• Rhymes: -yːrə

Noun

gravure f (plural gravures)

1. engraving [From late 18th c.]

Related terms

• graveren
• graveur

Anagrams

• graveur

French

Etymology

From graver +‎ -ure.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɡʁa.vyʁ/

• Audio

  (file)

Noun

gravure f (plural gravures)

1. engraving
2. (computing) burning (optical disc)
3. a printing method using as printing form an engraved cylinder

Descendants

• → Danish: gravure
• → Dutch: gravure
• → Russian: гравюра (gravjura)
  • → Georgian: გრავიურა (graviura)

Further reading

• “gravure”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Anagrams

• graveur