xylograph

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
25
Words With Friends
26
Letters
9
Pronunciation
/ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/ (UK)
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/ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/ (UK) · /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹɑːf/ (UK) · /ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/ (US) · /ˈzaɪ.loʊ-/ (US) · /-ɡɹɑf/ (US)

Definition of xylograph

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

  1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
    “First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.”
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noun

  1. An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.).
    “First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.”
  2. A print taken from such an engraving.
    “While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]”
    “The restoration process brought to light a sarira box containing an artifact that rewrote that history: the oldest xylograph in the world, reproduced in ink from woodblocks with characters carved in relief, was found inside the box from the second […]”

verb

  1. (transitive)To make a print from an engraving in wood.

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Etymology

Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

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47 words

3-letter words

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2-letter words

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