block printing

English

Noun

block printing (uncountable)

  1. Woodblock printing, a style of printing (common in China and Japan) from engraved boards by means of a sheet of paper laid on the linked surface and rubbed with a brush.
    Synonym: woodblock printing
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  2. A method of printing cotton cloth and paper hangings with colours, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with colouring matter.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for block printing in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.)

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