Definitions for etchings

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etchings etch·ing

Spelling: [ech-ing]

IPA: /ˈɛtʃ ɪŋ/

Etchings is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 14 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 16 points.

You can make 315 anagrams from letters in etchings (ceghinst).

Definitions for etchings

noun

1. the act or process of making designs or pictures on a metal plate, glass, etc., by the corrosive action of an acid instead of by a burin.
2. an impression, as on paper, taken from an etched plate.
3. the design so produced.
4. a metal plate bearing such a design.

Origin of etchings

First recorded in 1625-35; etch + -ing¹

Examples for etchings

These etchings were published again in 1740 as Errores Ulyssis.

As yet, power rather than beauty presided, unless in the etchings of Vandyck.

It was rich with capital pencil sketches and even with etchings.

There are three kinds of prints, engravings, etchings, and mezzotintos.

Did you ask to see the early states of Mr. Whistler's etchings?

Still it was not the extraordinary skill which attracted me most in these etchings.

I think his etchings are as good as any line work the war has produced.

His industry may be inferred from the number of his engravings and etchings, of which he left not fewer than 1600.

The etchings and dry-points in the gallery do not form a complete set.

But the etchings were no more appreciated in New York than in London.