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etching

noun as in art created by carving

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“I’m just trying to process all this,” Gunning tells us, not long before etching her own name on a statuette.

Paint and etchings, including two names - Shal and Noah - were left scrawled on the walls and floor of Robin’s Hood Cave on Stanage Edge, near Hope Valley.

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He recalled going to visit the Woodland cemetery as a child to pay respects to his grandfather and being startled that the etching on the gravestone said “Young” instead of “Fong.”

The famed surrealist Salvador Dalí is coming to Seattle — at least an intriguing series of his etchings is.

The etching must also be carried out in the dark as cyanide develops in the reaction when it is struck by light, and it dissolves gold.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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