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  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of pyrograph.

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Examples

  • The bullet had hit the game bag at her side; it was full of spools of metal tape, in metal cases, and notes in written form, pyrographed upon sheets of plastic ring fastened into metal binders.

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • Unfolding it, he found, as he had expected, that the pyrographed message within was in the alphabet and language of the First Paratime Level:

    Last Enemy H. Beam Piper 1934

  • About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum, a chafing-dish, and a dozen pillows embroidered or beaded or pyrographed.

    Main Street 1920

  • Grandeur was in the red lambrequins over the doors and windows; the bead portière; a hand-painted coal-scuttle; small, round paintings of flowers set in black velvet; an enormous black-walnut bookcase with fully a hundred volumes; and the two lamps of green-mottled shades and wrought-iron frames, set on pyrographed leather skins brought from New

    The Trail of the Hawk A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • About her was the clothy exuberance of a Blodgett College room: cretonne-covered window-seat, photographs of girls, a carbon print of the Coliseum, a chafing-dish, and a dozen pillows embroidered or beaded or pyrographed.

    Main Street Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • Dave has crafted the beautiful matching lap support spinning bowl from myrtlewood and has adorned it with his signature pyrographed leaf motif.

    Bend Blogs 2010

  • a chafing-dish, and a dozen pillows embroidered or beaded or pyrographed.

    Main Street 2004

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