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  • noun Plural form of engraving.

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Examples

  • Also, there were copies of paintings and old wood engravings from the magazines of a generation and more before.

    CHAPTER XII 2010

  • See more engravings from the same series at the always-wonderful BibliOdyssey.

    Boing Boing 2006

  • I witnessed none of the hat-losing, horse-flipping spectacles seen in engravings on the walls of steakhouses.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • I witnessed none of the hat-losing, horse-flipping spectacles seen in engravings on the walls of steakhouses.

    Masters of the Hunt P. J. O'Rourke 2005

  • RNE: Joe's suggestion that Blake might have gone on to create more wood engravings is perceptive.

    Introduction 2003

  • Also, there were copies of paintings and old wood engravings from the magazines of a generation and more before.

    Chapter 12 1913

  • "As _A Crown of Flowers_ is carefully printed upon fine paper, full value is given to the engravings, which is one of the features of the magazine from which they are selected, and shows what a marked advance has been made of recent years in the character of such illustrations, which will, in the present instance, vie with anything of the kind produced on this or the other side of the Atlantic."

    The Girl's Own Paper, Vol. VIII, No. 355, October 16, 1886 Various

  • One of the engravings was a greyhound with an arrow through him, a crest of my grandmother's, whose maiden name was Noble.

    What I Remember Trollope, Thomas A 1887

  • Think then of the marvellous history of the Florentine lion, the subject of so many engravings, which is offered on the stall of every printseller to the eyes of the moved and astonished passers-by.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Arago, Francois 1859

  • Think then of the marvellous history of the Florentine lion, the subject of so many engravings, which is offered on the stall of every printseller to the eyes of the moved and astonished passers-by.

    Biographies of Distinguished Scientific Men Baden Powell 1819

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