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- noun Plural form of
etching .
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Examples
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As a revered Pasho, Raphel has literally earned his stripes; skin etchings serve as reminders of his knowledge.
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'The etchings were the text of an awful row, in which the old gentleman exposed himself more than I am willing to repeat, and called on me to choose between his hides and tallow and what he was pleased to call my tomfoolery.'
The Pillars of the House, V1 Charlotte Mary Yonge 1862
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Picasso called the etchings, made between 1930 and 1937, a "visual diary."
The Seattle Times 2011
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Picasso called the etchings, made between 1930 and 1937, a "visual diary."
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The name etchings in the prisons would’ve unraveled me, for sure.
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The scoop: Prints (such as etchings and lithographs) and investment-quality photographs are often cheaper than paintings and drawings because they're produced in multiples.
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D.C. Oakes, established the first-ever property boundaries and marked them using primitive monuments such as etchings on trees and perfectly positioned, X-marked rocks.
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The back side has a Fresnel lens pattern for optimal light gathering and transmission and the front side has horizontal 'etchings'? .. a 'brushed' looking texture that increases horizontal dispersement and allows very nice viewablitiy even from extreme side angles.
Home Theater Forum audirs6 2010
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The next fine work amongst his etchings is the "Portrait of Cornelius
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She has written for children; she has written society verses; she wrote little prose poems in the day, fortunately brief, when they were popular under the absurd name of "etchings" or "pastels in prose;" she has tried her hand more than once at the drama, as Giles Corey, Yeoman, remains to witness; she has written a detective story; she has tried historical fiction; and she has composed romances not only of the kind in which passionate love is the theme, but also of the kind in which, as in Hawthorne, idealistic beauty is the end.
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