Crossword-Solution: MEZZOTINT
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Mezzotint | n. | A manner of engraving on copper or steel by drawing upon a surface previously roughened, and then removing the roughness in places by scraping, burnishing, etc., so as to produce the requisite light and shade. Also, an engraving so produced. |
| Mezzotint | v. t. | To engrave in mezzotint. |
We have 12 clues for the answer “MEZZOTINT”
| Clue | Answers |
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| COPPER engraving | 1 answer |
| method of engraving by scraping the roughened surface of a metal plate | 1 answer |
| print produced by an engraving that has been scraped to represent light or shade | 1 answer |
| tone engraving | 1 answer |
| CHIAROSCURO | 2 answers |
| light contrast | 3 answers |
| light and shade | 4 answers |
| print made from an engraved copper or steel plate | 5 answers |
| Highlights | 8 answers |
| Engraving | 12 answers |
| BLACK and white | 17 answers |
| Engrave | 27 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
TEREA
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greedy person
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Sentences with MEZZOTINT (5)
Stubbs’s old mezzotint of Eclipse hangs over my desk, and Herring’s portrait of Plenipotentiary,—whom I saw run at Epsom,—over my fireplace.
Could the diners have seen him, they would have known him by his resemblance to the mezzotint portrait that hung on the wall above him.
His face was not so oval, nor were his eyes so big, nor his lips so full, nor his hands so delicate, as they appeared in the mezzotint.
Under the mezzotint hung Hoppner’s miniature of that lovely and ill-starred girl, with her soft dark eyes, and her curls all astray from beneath her little blue turban.
When Phyllis was leaving the house half an hour later, a man was just entering the first drawing room--a man with a face burnt to the color of an old mezzotint.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 1 time in crossword archives (1974).