woodcut

IPA: wˈʊdkʌt

noun

  • (countable) An engraved block of wood, especially one used as a printing form.
  • (uncountable) A method of printmaking from such a block.
  • (countable) A print produced with this method.
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Examples of "woodcut" in Sentences

  • The is THE source for any kind of woodcut items you can imagine!
  • The woodcut is a very faithful representation of yaconins fencing.
  • Although the woodcut is the oldest traditional print medium it was the last to win respectability as an art form.
  • The itinerant sweetmeat vendor shown in the woodcut is a specimen of the class of Japanese most prone to superstition.
  • The woodcut was a bird's-eye view of Venice, the work of the painter Jacopo de Barbari; the original can be seen in the Museo Correr, where it is still the wonder and delight of every visitor.
  • While traditional techniques such as woodcut, etching, lithography, and screenprint form the core of the collection, newer digital processes, multiples, and artist's books are also collected in breadth and depth.
  • Yes, and in telling about it I'll show my naive ignorance: 4, 5, 6 (?) years ago on a vacation through much of New England, we stopped at a bookstore and I noticed a "local" author shelf with some mass market pbs with "woodcut" - style black and red covers depicting Sleepy-Hollow-like scenes.
  • However, in the old male skulls that I’ve seen (see accompanying images: the woodcut is from Alfred Russel Wallace’s 1869 The Malay Archipelago), the tips of the upper canines begin the anterodorsal part of their curvature a short distance dorsal to the upper surface of the skull, so if they were to continue to grow they would harmlessly curl upwards.

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