rubbing
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3.3
- noun
- /ˈrʌbɪŋ/
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frotado
- During the workshop, we made rubbings using charcoal and thin paper to capture the designs.
- make rubbings
Examples
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I do wax rubbings of all the tombstones.
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She spent many painstaking hours in King Pakal's tomb making rubbings of the sarcophagus and its lid, right?
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Your uncle said he saw rubbings like that.
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I want to do brass rubbings there anyway.
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Steve and I are doing grave rubbings at the old abandoned cemetery.
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My mom does gravestone rubbings.
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In time, Robertson's rubbings will be the only evidence that many of these masterpieces ever existed.
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The extensive collection of rubbings shows an evolution from symbols and shapes spanning a few feet to the massive geoglyphs that use the earth as a canvas.
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As a strong wind whipped through the boulders, Isla pulled out a more traditional documentation tool: huge sheets of white paper with rubbings of the rock art.
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The following year, when Alfred Kidder of the Carnegie Institution visited the site and saw her work, he was so impressed that he asked her to make rubbings of all the carvings at Tikal.
Academic text (2002)
Synonyms
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2.0
A mark left on a surface by a hand, foot, or paw
Compounds
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
The word rubbing comes from the basic verb rub, which means 'to move something over a surface'. So a rubbing is the picture you make when you put paper on a stone and rub with charcoal to copy its design.