lithograph

English

Eugène Delacroix, The Death of Ophelia, 1843, lithograph.

Etymology

Back-formation from lithography, litho- (stone) + -graph (that writes).

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /ˈlɪθəɡɹæf/, /ˈlɪθəɡɹɑːf/
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Noun

lithograph (plural lithographs)

  1. A printed image produced by lithography.
    • 2014, Ian McEwan, The Children Act, Penguin Random House (2018), page 1:
      To one side, by a tall window, a tiny Renoir lithograph of a bather.

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Verb

lithograph (third-person singular simple present lithographs, present participle lithographing, simple past and past participle lithographed)

  1. To create a copy of an image through lithography.

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