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‖ taille-douce|tɑjdus|
Also 7 tale-doux, 8 tali-douce.
[Fr., = soft cutting.]
Engraving on a metal plate with a graver or burin, as distinguished from work with the dry point, and from etching.
1650Evelyn Diary 21 June, A booke of statues..by which one may discover many errors in the taille douce of Perrier. 1657in Burton's Diary (1828) II. App. 541 That no printers..imprint, or cause to be imprinted any work or works, book or books, taledoux or taledouxes. 1675Lond. Gaz. No. 980/4 He already hath 108 Plates..cut in Taille Douce. 1718A. Nisbet Ess. Armories Index Terms, Sable, Black, is known in Tali-douce by perpendicular and horizontal Hatches. 1810Q. Rev. III. 203 Plates engraved, as Malte-Brun tells us, in taille douce. 1897O. Firth Postage Stamps ii. 7 The original example of line-engraved stamps, or stamps ‘engraved in taille-douce’. 1924F. J. Melville Compl. Philatelist vi. 83 Most of the stamps produced after this portrait were surface-printed, but the Falkland Islands and the Turks and Caicos Islands presented it in taille-douce engraving. 1955Boggs & Strange Foundations of Philately xi. 128 Line engraving is a classic process which was used for the first adhesive stamps issued in Great Britain in 1840... This process is also known as intaglio, recess printing, or taille douce. 1969F. L. Wilder How to identify Old Prints v. 77 Line-engraving (taille-douce) had become the principal form of engraving in France and it was said that the art was almost born and died with him [sc. Jacques-Philippe Le Bas], shortly before the Revolution. 1975W. Finlay Illustr. Hist. Stamp Design ii. 21/2 The paper usually has to be dampened..and then is laid on top of the plate and forced down under great pressure, so that the plate bites into the paper. The paper squeezed into the grooves picks up the ink; this is what gives stamps and banknotes printed in this fashion their characteristic ridged surface. This process is known as intaglio, taille douce, recess printing or direct plate printing. Philatelists often use the term ‘line engraving’. |