Xylograph
noun, verb ·Uncommon ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
"First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang."
- 2 A print taken from such an engraving.
"While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]"
- 1 To make a print from an engraving in wood. transitive
Example
More examples"First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang."
Etymology
Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.
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