gypsography
English
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edit- Rhymes: -ɒɡɹəfi
Noun
editgypsography (uncountable)
- The art or process of engraving on gypsum.
- 2002, Victor Arwas, Art Nouveau: The French Aesthetic, Papadakis Publisher, →ISBN, page 202:
- Maurice Dumont developed his own version of gypsography, executing a number of stylised figures in landscapes in blind embossing and lightly inked. He also produced etchings, drypoints, wood engravings, lithographs and zincographs.
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editPart or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “gypsography”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)