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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

pyrographic en · ADJ

Etymology

From pyrography + -ic.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) Relating to pyrography.
    • Near his bed was a four-section screen of polished wood, with pyrographic designs representing a bridle path felted with fallen leaves, a lily pond, an old man hunched up on a bench, and a squirrel holding a reddish object in its front paws. 1957 March 7, Vladimir Nabokov, chapter 1.2, in Pnin, Heinemann, page 23: