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Glyptic   Listen
adjective
Glyptic  adj.  
1.
Of or pertaining to gem engraving.
2.
(Min.) Figured; marked as with figures.






Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48








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... signal and rapid progress in the art of interior decoration. The style of architecture adopted in temples was a mixture of the Chinese and the Indian. Indeed, it is characteristic of this early epoch that traces of the architectural and glyptic fashions of the land where Buddhism was born showed themselves much more conspicuously than they did in later eras; a fact which illustrates Japan's constant tendency to break away from originals by modifying them in ...
— A History of the Japanese People - From the Earliest Times to the End of the Meiji Era • Frank Brinkley and Dairoku Kikuchi



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