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English Dictionary: Letterpress by the DICT Development Group
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From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]:
letterpress
n
  1. printing from a plate with raised characters [syn: {relief printing}, letterpress]
From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
   Letterpress \Let"ter*press`\ (-t[etil]r*pr[ecr]s`), n.
      Print; letters and words impressed on paper or other material
      by types; -- often used of the reading matter in distinction
      from the illustrations.
  
               Letterpress printing, printing directly from type, in
               distinction from printing from plates.
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