单词 | copperplate |
释义 | copperplate/ˈkɒpəpleɪt![]() noun 1A polished copper plate with a design engraved or etched into it.Much controversy still remains regarding the techniques used, but all processes began with etching and/or engraving the desired design on a copperplate....
1.1A print made from a copperplate.The atlas's hundreds of thousands of copperplate pages rolled off his nine Amsterdam printing presses (then the largest in the world) at a time when the Dutch East India Company was dominating Asian trade and mapping its territories. 2 [mass noun] A style of neat, round handwriting, usually slanted and looped, the thick and thin strokes being made by pressure with a flexible metal nib.Even then I regretted not being allowed to learn and to use copperplate but the days of the flexible steel pen nib were already ending....
The copybooks for this writing were originally printed from copperplates adjective Of or in copperplate writing.A painting of the sun setting over the sea in his book in 1921 was accompanied by the following message in very small copperplate writing....
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