dry point
Britishnoun
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a technique of intaglio engraving with a hard steel needle, without acid, on a copper plate
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the sharp steel needle used in this process
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an engraving or print produced by this method
Example Sentences
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The earliest works in the show are three small dry point etchings from 2008, 2010 and 2012 remarkable for their variety of delicate marks and their brinkmanship between abstraction and representation.
From New York Times • Jul. 29, 2021
The Wild Boars eventually found themselves marooned on a small rocky shelf about 4km from the cave entrance, past a normally dry point known as Pattaya Beach which by now was flooded.
From BBC • Jul. 13, 2018
This is not a dry point of theology.
From The Guardian • Jul. 8, 2011
Their harrowing images sprint among Modern styles while wringing all they can from the combination of etching, aquatint and dry point, not least by regularly equating acid-bitten surfaces with wounded flesh or riven terrain.
From New York Times • Mar. 24, 2011
I stopped to lick the dry point of my pencil.
From "Beyond the Bright Sea" by Lauren Wolk
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