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Xylograph

//ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf// noun, verb

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Noun
  1. 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. 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 […]"

Verb
  1. 1
    To make a print from an engraving in wood. transitive

Etymology

Etymology 1

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

Etymology 2

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

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