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emboss

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Concise Oxford English Dictionary © 2008 Oxford University Press:
emboss/ɪmˈbɒs/

▶verb (usu. as adj. embossed) carve a design in relief on (a surface).

– derivatives
embosser noun.

– origin ME: from the OFr. base of obs. Fr. embosser, from em- ‘into’ + boce ‘protuberance’.

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