Definition of "mezzotints" []

• Plural form of mezzotint. (noun)

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• "In 1982, she helped curate "The Jews in the Age of Rembrandt," a critically well-received show of engravings, etchings and mezzotints, at New York's Jewish Museum."
• "The 63-year-old National Realty Club kicked off the new decade by moving its bi-weekly events to an eccentric turn-of-the-century bachelor mansion filled with British mezzotints on the corner of 55th Street and Madison Avenue."
• "The size, shape, and placement of these dots create the shading and depth of tone that made mezzotints distinctive from and, in some senses, better than other engraved pictures."