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noun

Copperplate n.

A plate of polished copper on which a design or writing is engraved.

An impression on paper taken from such a plate. Note: In printing from a copper- or steel plate the lines are filled with ink, the surface of the plate is wiped clean, the paper laid upon it, and the impression taken by pressing it under the roller of a plate press.

Copperplate press. See Plate press, under Plate.

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Etymology of 'Copperplate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Copperplate" Quotes from Famous Books

... flattened out like the vault of the Pantheon. Professor Josef Durm, in his essay upon the Domes of Florence and S. Peter's, gives a minute description of the model for the latter, and prints a carefully executed copperplate engraving of its section. It is clear from this work that at some time or other a third semi-spherical vault, corresponding to that of the Pantheon, had been contemplated. This would have been structurally of no value, and would have masked the two upper shells, ...

— The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti • John Addington Symonds

... — N. engraving, chalcography^; line engraving, mezzotint engraving, stipple engraving, chalk engraving; dry point, bur; etching, aquatinta^; chiseling; plate engraving, copperplate engraving, steel engraving, wood engraving; xylography, lignography^, glyptography^, cerography^, lithography, chromolithography^, photolithography, zincography^, glyphography, xylograph, lignograph^, ...

— Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases: Body • Roget

Words linked to "Copperplate" : cursive, cursive script, engraving, longhand