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PRINTMAKING
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I. (noun)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Artistic design and manufacture of prints as woodcuts or silkscreens
Classified under:
Nouns denoting acts or actions
Hypernyms ("printmaking" is a kind of...):
art; artistic creation; artistic production (the creation of beautiful or significant things)
Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "printmaking"):
engraving; etching (making engraved or etched plates and printing designs from them)
serigraphy (the act of making a print by the silkscreen method)
lithography (the act of making a lithographic print)