cerography
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Noun (1)
- the art of engraving on a waxed plate on which a printing surface is created by electrotyping.Type of intaglio printing, intaglio
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Webster's Dictionary (1913)
Ce·rog′ra·phy noun
Origin: Gr. κηρός wax + -graphy.
1. The art of making characters or designs in, or with, wax.
2. A method of making stereotype plates from inscribed sheets of wax.
Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913), from GCIDE 0.54