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rotogravure

[ roh-tuh-gruh-vyoor, -grey-vyer ]

noun

  1. a photomechanical process by which pictures, typeset matter, etc., are printed from an intaglio copper cylinder.
  2. a print made by this process.
  3. a section of a newspaper consisting of pages printed by the rotogravure process; magazine section.


rotogravure

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noun

  1. a printing process using a cylinder etched with many small recesses, from which ink is transferred to a moving web of paper, plastic, etc, in a rotary press
  2. printed material produced in this way, esp magazines
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rotogravure1

1910–15; < German Rotogravur, originally in the name of a Berlin printing firm ( Rotogravur Deutsche Tiefdruck Gesellschaft ), allegedly formed from the names of two other firms, Rotophot and Deutshe Photogravur AG; photogravure, rotary
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of rotogravure1

C20: from Latin rota wheel + gravure
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On Page 129, there is a rotogravure of an artwork depicting the Marquis de Nointel arriving in Jerusalem with great pomp and circumstance — the painting on the wall.

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On the following Sunday, it took up the entire front page of The Post’s rotogravure section, a souvenir for readers.

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He appeared on the front cover of the Seattle Sunday Times color rotogravure Pictorial for Nov. 7, 1954.

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I knew now why her face was familiar--its pleasing contemptuous expression had looked out at me from many rotogravure pictures of the sporting life at Asheville and Hot Springs and Palm Beach.

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Back then, it was the telephone, high-speed rotary presses, stereotyping, typesetting machines, color presses, rotogravure and the electric-telegraphic typewriter.

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