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photo-engraver

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • noun One who, by photography and etching, makes plates in relief for a type-printing press; also, the operator who retouches plates so prepared.

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Examples

  • The photo-engraver bent down hastily to pick up a crumpled paper lying on the floor.

    Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • The photo-engraver had been shaken to the depths of his entire being; he was twitching, sobbing, hissing, pacing up and down; with alternating moments of agitation and calm, which could have been plotted on a graph, like a fever.

    Maigret and the Hundred Gibbets Simenon, Georges, 1903- 1963

  • Practically all things may be reproduced successfully by photo-engraving, but the vast majority of subjects that go to the photo-engraver are either photographs or drawings.

    The Building of a Book A Series of Practical Articles Written by Experts in the Various Departments of Book Making and Distributing Various

  • Teegarten the photographer, and Ben Berkey the photo-engraver.

    Babbitt Sinclair Lewis 1918

  • A photo-engraver is now engaged on the work of copying the notes.

    Constance Dunlap 1908

  • Moreover, such a relief as I have described -- which is practically nothing more than an ordinary process block -- could be produced by any photo-engraver.

    The Red Thumb Mark 1902

  • After a brief spell for military service in 1926-7, and a little work elsewhere, he returned to the paper as an assistant photo-engraver and cartoonist.

    Telegraph.co.uk - Telegraph online, Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph 2011

  • Babbitt was with Albert Boos the merchant tailor, Hector Seybolt of the Little Sweetheart Condensed Milk Company, Emil Wengert the jeweler, Professor Pumphrey of the Riteway Business College, Dr. Walter Gorbutt, Roy Teegarten the photographer, and Ben Berkey the photo-engraver.

    Babbit 2004

  • Babbitt was with Albert Boos the merchant tailor, Hector Seybolt of the Little Sweetheart Condensed Milk Company, Emil Wengert the jeweler, Professor Pumphrey of the Riteway Business College, Dr. Walter Gorbutt, Roy Teegarten the photographer, and Ben Berkey the photo-engraver.

    Chapter 21 1922

  • Babbitt was with Albert Boos the merchant tailor, Hector Seybolt of the Little Sweetheart Condensed Milk Company, Emil Wengert the jeweler, Professor Pumphrey of the Riteway Business College, Dr. Walter Gorbutt, Roy Teegarten the photographer, and Ben Berkey the photo-engraver.

    Babbitt 1922

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