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photogravure

photogravure noun: an intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.

Noun

photogravure (countable and uncountable, plural photogravures)

  1. (uncountable) An intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
    • He turned to the plates of photogravure illustration which gave an air to the volume.1914, Ernest Bramah, Max Carrados
  2. (countable) A print so made.

Verb

photogravure (third-person singular simple present photogravures, present participle photogravuring, simple past and past participle photogravured)

  1. To print by this process.

Synonyms of photogravure

Forms of photogravure

Noun
pluralphotogravures
Verb
third-person singular presentphotogravures
present participlephotogravuring
past participlephotogravured
pastphotogravured

Origin of photogravure

From photo- + gravure.

Questions about photogravure

What does photogravure mean?
Photogravure means an intaglio process for printing photographic reproductions in newspapers and books.
What part of speech is photogravure?
Photogravure can be a noun or a verb.
What is the plural of photogravure?
The plural of photogravure is photogravures.

Words near photogravure in the dictionary

  1. photographones
  2. photographs
  3. photography
  4. photogravitational
  5. photogravitropic
  6. photogravure
  7. photogravured
  8. photogravures
  9. photogravuring
  10. photogravurist
  11. photogravurists

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Adapted from Wiktionary: photogravure (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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