Embossment
[n] sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
[n] an impression produced by pressure or printing
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anaglyph, bas-relief, bellying, boldness, boss, bulging, bump, cameo, cameo glass, cavo-rilievo, colophon, concavity, convexity, cut glass, dactylogram, dactylograph, dent, dint, eminence, excrescence, excrescency, extrusion, fingerprint, footmark, footpr