copperplaten.
1. gen. (Better written as two words.) A plate of copper; also collective.
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the world > food and drink > food > setting table > table utensils > [noun] > table-vessels > dish or plate > other types of dish
spice-plate1391
pie plate1573
maple dish1637
cheese platea1665
supper dish1664
copperplate1665
reaming dish1712
paper plate1723
pickle leaf1762
pap-boat1782
supper1787
vegetable dish1799
well-dish1814
ice plate1820
pudding plate1838
tea plate1862
picnic plate1885
strawberry dish1941
1665 S. Pepys Diary 16 Nov. (1972) VI. 300 Silk in bales, and boxes of Copper-plate.
1669 J. Worlidge Systema Agriculturæ (1681) xii. §6. 246 Then take a Copper-plate, about the size of an ordinary Trencher-plate.
1757 tr. J. G. Keyssler Trav. IV. 17 The letters are of gold, and set in a copper plate.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 379 They are composed of thin lacquered copper-plates.
1881 Trans. Amer. Inst. Mining Engineers 1880–1 9 122 Copper-plates, the plates of amalgamated copper over which the auriferous ore is allowed to flow..and upon which the gold is caught as amalgam.
2. spec. A polished plate of copper on which a design is engraved or etched for printing.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving > material
brass plate1663
copper1668
copperplate1668
1668 Excellency of Pen & Pencil 55 Copper plates ready polished do often come from Holland.
1685 W. Petty Will p. vii I have..the copper-plates for the maps of Ireland.
1730 J. Southall Treat. Buggs Pref. He not only forwarded the Impression, but directed and order'd the Copperplate.
1815 J. Smith Panorama Sci. & Art II. 770 The copperplate is prepared, and the ground laid upon it in the same manner as for etching.
1832 C. Babbage Econ. Machinery & Manuf. x. 48 Impressions from the same block, or the same copper-plate.
3. A print or impression from such a plate.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving > an engraving
brass-leaf1654
copperplate1663
brasscuta1680
copper-cut1688
1663 B. Gerbier Counsel to Builders sig. g3v Untill a large worke (with Copper Plates) shall have had time to be put forth.
1777 W. Robertson Hist. Amer. (1783) III. 174 Copper-plates of their paintings..published by various authors.
1840 W. M. Thackeray George Cruikshank (1869) 297 A couple of numbers, containing about a score of copperplates.
4. collective. Copperplate engraving or printing. Used of a style of careful handwriting.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > copperplate engraving
chalcography1661
copperplate1817
1817 M. Keating Trav. II. 82 What ideas copper-plate supplies are yet more inadequate.
1824 M. Wilmot Let. 1 Jan. (1935) 204 They will all write as well at 13 or 14 as if they wrote copper plate now.
1826 M. R. Mitford Our Village II. 161 The Th was there as legible as copper-plate.
1911 R. Brooke Let. July (1968) 312 I have stooped to an even more round-hand copper-plate than ever.
1966 G. Heyer Black Sheep ix. 132 She had then devoted the better part of the afternoon to the composition of a formal invitation, written in her beautiful copper-plate.
5. attributive. (Better as one word.)
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society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [noun] > copperplate
copperplate1750
society > communication > writing > handwriting or style of > [adjective] > copperplate
copperplate1750
society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [adjective] > copperplate engraving
copperplate1750
chalcographical18..
chalcographic1815
1750 J. Steuart Let.-bk. (1915) 465 A coper plate coppie book for asisting my boys in ther writing.
1824 J. Johnson Typographia I. 525 The earliest specimens of copper-plate printing.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Copper~plate Maker, a workman who shapes, smooths, and prepares metal plates for engraving.
1858 P. L. Simmonds Dict. Trade Products Copper-plate Press, a roller press for striking off impressions on paper from a metal plate.
1878 R. H. Thurston Hist. Steam-engine 33 A copperplate engraving.
1954 N. D. Young Handwriting in Eng. & Wales i. 9 England,..producing in time the copper-plate writing that was imitated in all the counting-houses of Europe.
This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1893; most recently modified version published online June 2022).
copperplatev.
transitive. To engrave on and print from a copperplate.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > engrave in intaglio [verb (transitive)] > copperplate
copperplate1822
1822 W. Scott Let. 15 Mar. (1934) VII. 97 It will be time for him to be copperplated as Joseph Gillon used to call it when he is Major General.
1881 J. Benedict Weber 84 The notes flowed to his pen with the marks of all the shading of expression, as if copper-plated on the paper.
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