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block printing en · NOUN
Meanings
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(uncountable) A method of printing cotton cloth and paperhangings with colors, by pressing them upon an engraved surface coated with colouring matter.
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(uncountable) Synonym of woodblock printing.
This invention seems never to have been developed to any practical application in superseding block-printing.
1883, Samuel Wells Williams, The Middle Kingdom: A Survey of the Geography, Government, Education, Social Life, Arts, Religion, &c., of the Chinese Empire and Its Inhabitants:
Synonyms
woodblock printing