kamagraphy
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
25
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
5
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
A process for making copies of paintings that are painted on a pretreated canvas using a special press, which reproduces the texture of the brushstrokes as well as the colour, but destroys the original in the process.
Uncountable
Example Sentences
- "Kamagraphy, as the new technique is called, enables the printer to reproduce both the colour and the three-dimensional characteristics of the brush-stroke"
- "Here is what we have learned about kamagraphy (the process is only valid for canvases about to be painted and not for the reproduction of those which already exist)."
Etymology
From French kamagraphie. Attested from 1967.
Origin
- Source language: French
Word Breakdown
- Root: kamagraphie