Usually means: Art of metalworking by embossing.
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  1. toreutics: Merriam-Webster
  2. toreutics: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. toreutics: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. toreutics: Collins English Dictionary
  5. toreutics: Wordnik
  6. toreutics: Wiktionary
  7. toreutics: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  8. toreutics: Infoplease Dictionary
  9. toreutics: Dictionary.com
  10. Toreutics: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  11. toreutics: The Phrontistery - A Dictionary of Obscure Words
  12. toreutics: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. toreutics: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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▸ noun:  The art of making relief or intaglio designs, especially by chasing, carving or embossing in metal

Similar:
retroussage, repoussage, gravure, diework, metalworking, mullar, ajouré, tooling, metalcraft, toolsmithing, more...

Opposite:
Untouched, plain, unadorned, unembellished

Types:
engraving, etching, gilding, lacework, laser engraving, plating, punching, stamping, more...

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Similar:
retroussage, repoussage, gravure, diework, metalworking, mullar, ajouré, tooling, metalcraft, toolsmithing, more...

Opposite:
Untouched, plain, unadorned, unembellished

Types:
engraving, etching, gilding, lacework, laser engraving, plating, punching, stamping, more...



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