xylograph

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xylograph

/ˈzaɪ.ləʊ.ɡɹɑːf/ UK
/ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹɑːf/ UK
/ˈzaɪ.lə.ɡɹæf/ US
/ˈzaɪ.loʊ-/ US
/-ɡɹɑf/ US

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Back-formation from xylography, corresponding to xylo- (“wood”) + -graph.

noun xylographs

An engraving in wood or woodcut, especially one used in printing predating the Western tradition (14th c.). First he collected a number of witnesses, including many old prints of the Guhyasamāja Tantra itself and old xylograph prints of the Pradipodyotana from the monasteries of Drepung, Tashilhunpo, Riwo Dangchen, and Nartang.
Similar: woodcut
A print taken from such an engraving. While Walter Gropius had had a reproduction of a xylograph from Lyonel Feininger reproduced on the Bauhaus movement's founding manifesto in 1919 – a symbolic image of a gothic cathedral that was comparatively traditional in both form […]

verb xylographs · xylographing · xylographed

transitive To make a print from an engraving in wood.

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@misc{xylograph_2026,
  title = {xylograph},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/xylograph},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}