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Embossment   Listen
noun
Embossment  n.  
1.
The act of forming bosses or raised figures, or the state of being so formed.
2.
A bosslike prominence; figure in relief; raised work; jut; protuberance; esp., a combination of raised surfaces having a decorative effect. "The embossment of the figure."





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"Embossment" Quotes from Famous Books



... rear, and large fans, of the wing feathers of the ostrich, played around the dignitaries; immediately behind their chairs (which were of a black wood, almost covered by inlays of ivory and gold embossment) stood their handsomest youths, with corslets of leopard's skin, covered with gold cockle-shells, and stuck full of small knives, sheathed in gold and silver and the handles of blue agate; cartouch-boxes of elephant's hide hung below, ornamented in the same manner; a large gold-handled ...
— Celebrated Travels and Travellers - Part III. The Great Explorers of the Nineteenth Century • Jules Verne


Words linked to "Embossment" :   basso rilievo, stamp, alto rilievo, high relief, emboss, relievo, low relief, half-relief, basso relievo, sculpture, rilievo, sculptural relief, impression, imprint


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