spanish

• enPR: spăn'ĭsh, IPA^(key): /ˈspæn.ɪʃ/

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• Rhymes: -ænɪʃ

spanish (third-person singular simple present spanishes, present participle spanishing, simple past and past participle spanished)

1. (printing) To subject to spanishing, a printing process in which an ink is deposited on the bottoms and sides of depressions formed in a plastic material
   • 1969, Robert H. Mosher & Dale Stroble Davis, Industrial and Specialty Papers: Applications‎, page 180:

     Such papers have been print-embossed or spanished to obtain special effects.

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