• IPA: /ˈetʃ.ɪŋ/

etching (plural etchings)

1. (uncountable) The art of producing an image from a metal plate into which an image or text has been etched with acid.

   Coordinate term: engraving#English|engraving

   Hypernyms: intaglio

   hyponyms en

2. (countable) The image created by this process.
   • 1907, Robert William Chambers, chapter VIII, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, OCLC 24962326 ↗:

     "My tastes," he said, still smiling, "incline me to the garishly sunlit side of this planet." And, to tease her and arouse her to combat: "I prefer a farandole to a nocturne; I'd rather have a painting than an etching; Mr. Whistler bores me with his monochromatic mud; I don't like dull colours, dull sounds, dull intellects; […]."

• French: gravure, eau-forte
• German: Ätzradierung, Radierung
• Italian: acquaforte
• Russian: офорт
• Spanish: aguafuerte

• French: eau-forte, estampe
• German: Radierung
• Italian: acquaforte

1. present participle of etch#English|etch