"Repousse" is a word in ENGLISH
Ornamented with patterns in relief made by pressing or
hammering on the reverse side; -- said of thin metal, or of a vessel
made of thin metal.
Formed in relief, as a pattern on metal.
Repousse work.
To ask a child to feel sympathy for the poor is harder than getting him to feel sympathy for a chicken or a goat—at least you can see a goat being slaughtered.
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A style of engraving in relief by means of voltaic electricity. A picture is drawn on a metallic plate with …
Read the complete definitionA hardened steel roller having a design in relief, used for imprinting a reversed copy of the design in a …
Read the complete definitionA die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.
Read the complete definitionA description of sculpture such as bas-relief in metal.
Read the complete definitionThe art or the description of scupture such as bas-relief in metal; toreumatography.
Read the complete definitionIn relief; pertaining to sculpture in relief, especially of metal; also, pertaining to chasing such as surface ornamentation in metal.
Read the complete definitionA process in photographic printing, in which a relief pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain operations, is …
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