mezzotints
Meaning of mezzotints
plural noun
- a print made from an engraved copper or steel plate, the surface of which has been scraped and polished to give areas of shade and light respectively. The technique was much used in the 17th, 18th, and early 19th centuries for the reproduction of paintings.
a series of mezzotints produced in the early 19th century
- engrave (a picture) in mezzotint.
he practised engraving, mezzotinting, and water colouring
from Italian mezzotinto, from mezzo ‘half’ + tinto ‘tint’.
Information about mezzotints
- The singular form of mezzotints is: mezzotint.
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Hyphenation of mezzotints
mez-zot-ints
- It consists of 3 syllables and 10 chars.
- mezzotints is a word trisyllabic because it has three syllables
Words that rhyme with mezzotints
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