embossment

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Your fingers float over the embossment, you feel the glossy finish and then you flip the book over and read the words of praise.

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  1. noun The act or process of embossing or the condition of being embossed.
  2. noun Embossed ornamentation.
  3. noun The distance between the nondeformed part of a document surface and a specified point on a printed character in optical character recognition.

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  • Inside the mould, there is an embossment of your text or logo. —  Find Free Articles - ArticlesBase
  • Your fingers float over the embossment, you feel the glossy finish and then you flip the book over and read the words of praise. —  The Rebel Yell
  • But on every one of them, in the centre or some other part of the embossment, appeared this image of the sun. —  The Virgin of the Sun
  • Interior is redesigned and fitted with Aigner-branded kit such as the alcantara, leather, headrest embossment, sun shields and rear screen frame. —  xml's Blinklist.com
  • The war-caps of eagles 'feathers nodded in the rear, and large fans, of the wing feathers of the ostrich, played around the dignitaries; immediately behind their chairs (which were of a black wood, almost covered by inlays of ivory and gold embossment) stood their handsomest youths, with corslets of leopard's skin, covered with gold cockle-shells, and stuck full of small knives, sheathed in gold and silver and the handles of blue agate; cartouch-boxes of elephant's hide hung below, ornamented in the same manner; a large gold-handled sword was fixed behind the left shoulder, and silk scarves and horses' tails (generally white), streamed from the arms and waist cloth; their long Danish muskets had broad rims of gold at small distances, and the stocks were ornamented with shells. —  Celebrated Travels and Travellers Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century
 

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