woodcut
a carved block of wood from which prints are made.
a print or impression from such a block.
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How to use woodcut in a sentence
These woodcuts are far from unprecedented, though, since they employ curving motifs like the ones the artist has long daubed on canvas.
In the galleries: Tracing a generational progression in abstract art | Mark Jenkins | March 5, 2021 | Washington PostWith this tool, Death is illustrated in many a 15th-century woodcut mowing down souls as if they were grain.
Ebola Rages in West Africa, Reigniting Humanity’s Oldest Fear: The Plague | Scott Bixby | August 4, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTThe Daily Pic: Emily Henretta's woodcut captures technology's fragility.
Barroso, for example, is working on a woodcut of a tablet computer.
Many of the lines are wavy and irregular and there are no woodcut initials or ornaments of any kind.
A History of the Cambridge University Press | S. C. Roberts
Then and there I saw my book plate–a coloured woodcut, green and blue, with the pine in black on the key block!
The Idyl of Twin Fires | Walter Prichard EatonIt has, by way of frontispiece, a woodcut by Hans Sebald Beham, representing a number of sages seated round a table.
Masterpieces of Mystery, Vol. 1 (of 4) | VariousII.; and its derivation from the solid cusp will be understood, at once, from the woodcut Fig.
The Stones of Venice, Volume III (of 3) | John RuskinHe stated that he had paid Thomas Bewick upwards of five hundred pounds for various woodcut blocks.
The History of the Catnach Press | Charles Hindley
British Dictionary definitions for woodcut
/ (ˈwʊdˌkʌt) /
a block of wood cut along the grain and with a design, illustration, etc, incised with a knife, from which prints are made
a print from a woodcut
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