rubbing
n. countablen. an image made by placing paper over a textured surface and pressing a pencil or crayon across it. You use this to copy the pattern of something like a coin or a stone.
n. a reproduction of a textured surface or relief, created by placing paper over the object and applying a marking medium such as graphite or wax. Often used to document historical inscriptions or architectural details.
The child made a rubbing of a leaf with a green crayon.
Historians often take a rubbing of old gravestones to preserve the text before the stone weathers away completely.
The museum's collection includes a detailed rubbing of the temple's frieze, capturing intricate carvings that have since been lost to environmental degradation and urban pollution.
From Middle English rubbinge, rubbynge, equivalent to rub + -ing.
From rub + -ing.
Commonly used with the verb 'to take' or 'to make'.