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单词 maculature
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maculaturen.

Brit. /ˈmakjʊlətʃə/, U.S. /ˈmækjələˌtʃər/
Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymon: French maculature.
Etymology: < Middle French, French maculature badly printed leaf, hence sheet of waste paper (1567) < classical Latin maculāt- , past participial stem of maculāre (see maculate v.) + French -ure -ure suffix1. Compare German Makulatur (16th cent.), post-classical Latin maculatura (16th cent.).
1. Printing. A sheet of waste paper or blotting paper; waste material.
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1656 T. Blount Glossographia Maculatures, blotting or waste papers.
1706 Phillips's New World of Words (new ed.) Maculature or Macle, a waste Sheet of printed Paper.
1721 N. Bailey Universal Etymol. Eng. Dict. Maculature, a Waste or blotting Paper.
1894 Amer. Dict. Printing & Bookmaking 357/1 Maculature, waste paper; spotted paper.
2001 www.ad.siemens.de 14 Dec. (O.E.D. Archive) Best performance at a minimum of maculature is available to you thanks to our wide range of solutions based on integrated automation & drive concepts.
2. Engraving. An impression taken from a block or print in order to remove residual ink from it before re-inking.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > engraving > intaglio printing > [noun] > a print > second impression
maculature1904
1904 Burlington Mag. Apr. 70/1 One of these [impressions of the Hundred Guilder Plate]..is a ‘maculature’, an impression on a sheet of ordinary paper passed over the plate to remove the ink.
1908 A. M. Hind Short Hist. Engraving Introd. 15 Sometimes the last vestiges of ink are pulled out by taking another impression, of course perfectly valueless in itself, which goes by the name of maculature.
1914 Brit. Mus. Guide Processes of Engraving 52 A maculature is another form of weak impression. A copper plate needs to be inked between each impression. Sometimes a second impression is taken from the plate before re-inking, as a means of extracting the remainder of the ink from the lines. This is called a maculature.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2000; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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