Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The art or operation of chasing.
- noun The chasing upon a piece of metal-work.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun The process of chasing on metals; also, the work thus chased.
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Examples
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Frenchmen above all other races have always excelled, that analysis of feeling which has been defined as "le travail de ciselure morale."
Three French Moralists and The Gallantry of France Edmund Gosse 1888
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