embossmentn.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [noun] > relief > execution
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1801 Ann. Reg. 1799 (Otridge ed.) ii. Useful Projects 399/2 A method of..ornamenting by..embossment..cloths or stuffs.
2. concrete. A figure carved or moulded in relief; embossed ornament. Now rare. Also attributive, as in embossment-map, a map of which the surface is moulded in elevations and depressions.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > plastic art > [noun] > relief > article executed in
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1620 T. Dekker Dreame sig. A3 There you see the golden Embosments, and curious Enchacings.
1731 Capt. Pownall in Bibliotheca Topographica Britannica No. 2 (1781) ii. 166 An urn..of..clay..without any inscription or embossement.
1813 J. Hogg Queen's Wake i. i. 48 Beneath rose an embossment proud,—A rose beneath a thistle bowed.
1881 Nature 16 June 149/1 All the necessary data for making an embossment-map.
3. gen. A bulging, protuberance.
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the world > space > shape > unevenness > projection or prominence > protuberance or rounded projection > [noun] > a protuberance or protuberant part
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embossingc1430
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1610 J. Guillim Display of Heraldrie ii. vi. 63 With a swelling embossement.
1611 R. Cotgrave Dict. French & Eng. Tongues at Saillie The imbossement of an enchaced pretious stone.
1625 F. Bacon Ess. (new ed.) 274 Perfect circles without any..Imbosments.
1817 R. Jameson Treat. External Characters Minerals (ed. 3) 89 These embossments are not formed by the crystallization of that portion of the salt which has been dissolved.
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