Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • noun A process for producing high-quality reproductions of images such as paintings or photographs using an inkjet printer.

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  • noun the use of inkjet printing to manufacture artistic prints

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[French, a squirt, spurt, from feminine past participle of gicler, to squirt, spurt, from Franco-Provençal jicler, gigler; akin to Provençal cisclar, gisclar, to whistle, cry out, rain and blow (of the weather), of unknown origin.]

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French giclée ("spray").

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  • According to Wikipedia, giclée is "a neologism coined in 1991 by printmaker Jack Duganne for fine art digital prints made on inkjet printers. The name originally applied to fine art prints created on IRIS printers in a process invented in the late 1980s but has since come to mean any inkjet print. It is often used by artists, galleries, and print shops to denote high quality printing but since it is an unregulated word it has no associated warranty of quality." (http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Gicl%C3%A9e&oldid=506509391)

    August 9, 2012

  • I do not like this word. There.

    July 7, 2020