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A mezzotint is a kind of printed picture. The artist works on a metal plate, making it rough, then polishes some parts smooth. Ink stays in the rough parts (dark) and wipes off the smooth parts (light), so you get soft light and shade, almost like a painting. The word is also used for a picture made this way, and as a verb: to mezzotint a plate. It is an art-studio and art-history word, not everyday English. Though actually, it is not a photograph and not “a medium tint” in the ordinary sense of tint — it is a print from that special plate.
美柔汀（金屬版畫的一種，靠打磨做出明暗）
組成Borrowed from Italian mezzatinta, literally “half dye” or “half tint”: mezza “half” + tinta “dye, tint.” The name points to the in-between greys, not only black and white.
原始詞典資料3 筆記錄
以下是外部詞典記錄的用法，原文照列，我們還沒有寫成教學內容。上面的說明才是我們自己寫的；有些用法可能上面已經講過了。
mezzotintnoun
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A form of intaglio etching in which a metal plate is roughened evenly and then smoothed to bring out an image.
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An etching or print made using this method.
mezzotintverb
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To make such etchings
資料來源：英文維基詞典 English Wiktionary（CC BY-SA 4.0）。 原文照列，未經改寫。