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anaglypta

noun [a-nə-glip-tə]

1. embossed wallpaper, a type of wallpaper that has a permanent raised design [often used before another noun]

examples
1. Three coats of deep blue paint bring out the texture in the anaglypta wall covering. Barbara Hertenstein, St. Louis Post-Dispatch, 29 Apr. 2000
2. These Victorian and Edwardian houses often conceal the evidence of earlier tastes in decoration—contoured Anaglypta wallpaper, dark varnishes, here and there the piece of stained glass that must have added to the general gloom. Alexander McCall Smith, Sunday Times (London), 27 Apr. 2008
3. The bed was a four-poster, hung with patterned drapes that matched the Anaglypta on the walls. Cabaret Macabre by Tom Mead

origin
earlier a trademark, borrowed from Latin, "vessels carved in low relief," from neuter plural of anaglyptus "carved in low relief"