Woodbury-type

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Woodbury-type \Wood"bur*y-type`\, n. [After the name of the
     inventor, W. Woodbury.]
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     1. A process in photographic printing, in which a relief
        pattern in gelatin, which has been hardened after certain
        operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft


        metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which
        pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process
        than in common printing.
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     2. A print from such a plate.
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