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celature|ˈsiːlətjʊə(r)|
Also 7 cælature.
[ad. L. cælatūra, f. cælā-re to emboss, engrave.]
a. Embossing.
b. concr. Embossed work, an embossed figure.
1430Lydg. Chron. Troy iii. xxviii, With craftye archys reysed wonder clene..So merueylous was the celature. 1627Hakewill Apol. (1630) 372 These celatures in their drinking cups were so fram'd, that they might put them on or take them off at pleasure. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. x. §17 They admitted even in the utensils of the Church some celatures and engravings. 1650Fuller Pisgah iii. v. 367 Nor was all this flouretry, and other celature of the cedar, lost labour. [In Bailey, Johnson, and mod. Dicts.] |