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copperplate

/kop-er-pleyt/US // ˈkɒp ərˌpleɪt //UK // (ˈkɒpəˌpleɪt) //

铜版,铜板,铜版画,铜版纸

Definitions

n.名词 noun
  1. 1
    • : a plate of polished copper on which a writing, picture, or design is made by engraving or etching.
    • : a print or impression from such a plate.
    • : engraving or printing of this kind.
    • : a fine, elegant style of handwriting.

Examples

  • The same remark is applicable to most of the copperplate and lithographic portraits of Beethoven.

  • I give a reproduction which suggests somewhat the effect of the famous copperplate of Erasmus.

  • The outside of it looked all right, with its address in Thompson's neat copperplate.

  • It wasn't written on in Thompson's neat copperplate or in his neat phrases, either.

  • It was written in Thompson's careful, back-number copperplate, perhaps not so careful as usual, but his unmistakably.