Xylography

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • n. Wood engraving, especially of an early period.
  • n. The art of printing texts or illustrations, sometimes with color, from woodblocks, as distinct from typography.
    • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. The art of making xylographs.
    • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. The art of engraving on wood.
  • n. The art of making prints from the natural grain of wood.
  • n. A method pf printing in colors upon wood for purposes of house decoration.
    • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • n. Engraving on wood: a word used only by bibliographers, and chiefly for the woodcut work of the fifteenth century.
  • n. A process of decorative painting on wood.
    • Word Usage
    "It is in the fragments, now so rare and precious, of some alphabets -- of some small grammars published for the use of schools about the middle of the fifteenth century -- or in the letters distributed in Germany by the religious bodies commissioned to collect alms, that bibliographers now seek to discover the first processes employed by the inventors of xylography and typography."
     
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