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Date: 1800-1900
Language: German
Origin: lithographie, from Greek lithos 'stone' + -graphia 'writing'

lithography

 noun
     
Related topics: Painting and Drawing
li‧thog‧ra‧phy [uncountable]
AVP a method of printing in which a pattern is cut into stone or metal so that ink sticks to some parts of it and not others
—lithographic adjective
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