woodcut Definition
wood·cut (-kut′)
noun
- a wooden block engraved with a design, etc.
- a print from this
woodcut Usage Examples
Converse of object
- contain: These two works contain illustrative woodcuts which ally them to the emblem tradition.
- include: These editions include woodcuts by the celebrated Bernard Salomon.
- make: She painted and made woodcuts for the Hogarth Press, which was founded by Leonard Woolf and Virginia Woolf.
- use: What is more, he selected the Cato Street Conspiracy to launch the idea of using woodcuts to illustrate stories in newspapers.
- have: Put in shopping basket This edition has nearly 160 woodcuts.
Converse of subject
illustrate: They are illustrated by occasional woodcuts, clearly taken from stock, and decorated by a wide variety of woodcut initials.
Adjective modifier
- Japanese: Within the red trimmed contours, an image of a warrior appears, reminiscent of Japanese woodcuts.
- original: Translated by William Gilles and with the original woodcuts.
- small: In these books therefore there are 23 small martyr woodcuts making a total of 45 appearances.
- large: And third there are some much larger woodcuts of major events.
- beautiful: Clearly and simply written, the book is illustrated with beautiful woodcuts of all the characters.
- colored: The displayed side shows 8 hand colored woodcuts, including the first known printed depiction of a spectacle wearer.
Modifies a noun
- engraving: Dovedale - [ Charles ] Cotton's Fishing House: woodcut engraving Showing a stone square building with a pyramidal roof.
- illustration: A series of new woodcut illustrations by Diane Fisher bring a new perspective to the story.
- print: In 1856, Japan was forced to open its ports to trade, and Japanese woodcut prints suddenly became available in America and Europe.
- map: These were woodcut maps but engraved in the ' copperplate ' manner.
- figure: Neither the woodcut figures for the first edition nor those for the second edition appear to have been used either before or subsequently.
- image: The woodcut images that frequently adorn printed broadsides were often recycled, wandering somewhat indiscriminately from one ballad to another.
Noun used with modifier
century: A surrealist fantasy based on the 15th century woodcuts of the dance of death.
Preposition: for
artist: Full of original woodcuts for commercial artists, engineers, metallurgists and the curious.
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