line engraving

Questions about line engraving

What does line engraving mean?

line engraving means "a print obtained from a line drawing". That is the primary sense; the word has 2 in total, listed in full on this page.

What is another word for line engraving?

Close synonyms include linecut, linecut, line block. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is line engraving a common word?

line engraving is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.