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Photogravure   Listen
Photogravure

noun
1.
Printing from an intaglio plate prepared by photographic methods.
2.
An intaglio print produced by gravure.  Synonyms: gravure, heliogravure.
3.
Using photography to produce a plate for printing.  Synonym: rotogravure.





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"Photogravure" Quotes from Famous Books



... fell upon the sheet of paper, I stared at it with considerable surprise. I had not noticed it there previously I had not put it there,—where had it come from? The curious thing was that, on it, produced apparently by some process of photogravure, was an illustration of a species of beetle with which I felt that I ought to be acquainted, and yet was not. It was of a dull golden green; the colour was so well brought out,— even to the extent of seeming to scintillate, and the whole ...
— The Beetle - A Mystery • Richard Marsh
... the cab door Foyle gave quick instructions in a low voice. The Princess Petrovska found herself ushered into a plainly furnished waiting room, decorated with half-a-dozen photographic enlargements of the portraits of high police officials and a photogravure of "Her Majesty the Baby." There the policeman ...
— The Grell Mystery • Frank Froest


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