copperplate
/kop-er-pleyt/US // ˈkɒp ərˌpleɪt //UK // (ˈkɒpəˌpleɪt) //
铜版,铜板,铜版画,铜版纸
Definitions
n.名词 noun
- 1
- : a plate of polished copper on which a writing, picture, or design is made by engraving or etching.
- : a print or impression from such a plate.
- : engraving or printing of this kind.
- : a fine, elegant style of handwriting.
Examples
The same remark is applicable to most of the copperplate and lithographic portraits of Beethoven.
I give a reproduction which suggests somewhat the effect of the famous copperplate of Erasmus.
The outside of it looked all right, with its address in Thompson's neat copperplate.
It wasn't written on in Thompson's neat copperplate or in his neat phrases, either.
It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.
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