Pouncing

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Verb

"The process of roughening the surface of vellum or parchment with pounce or pumice to counteract the natural greasiness of the material and enable it to take ink readily."<ref name="Ehterington"> [1] Roberts, Matt T. and Etherington. "Pouncing". Bookbinding and the Conservation of Books, A Dictionary of Descriptive Terminology. 1994. Web. 19 August 2014.</ref>

Related terms

pounce

Translations

• Danish: (translation needed)

• Dutch: (translation needed)

• French: poncer<ref name="Vocabulaire codicologique">[2] Muzerelle, Denis. Vocabulaire codicologique: répertoire méthodique des termes français relatifs aux manuscrits, avec leurs équivalents en anglais, italien, espagnol.</ref>

• German: (translation needed)

• Italian: pomiciare<ref name="Vocabulaire codicologique" />, imopomiciare <ref name="Vocabulaire codicologique" />, levigare <ref name="Vocabulaire codicologique" />

• Latin: (translation needed)

• Spanish: (translation needed)

• Swedish: (translation needed)

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