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Webster 1913 Edition
Intaglio
In-tagl′io
,Noun.
pl. E.
Intaglius
(#)
, It. Intagli
(#)
. A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; – opposed to
cameo
. Also used adjectively. Webster 1828 Edition
Intaglio
INTAGLIO
,Noun.
Definition 2024
intaglio
intaglio
See also: intagliò
English
Noun
intaglio (plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii)
- A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- On a wooden pub sign daringly taken, one daylight raid, by a drunken Bartley Gobbitch, across which still survives in intaglio the legend SNIPE AND SHAFT, Teddy Bloat is mincing bananas with a great isosceles knife.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
Antonyms
- (printing method): relief printing
Translations
design or piece of art
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printing method
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Verb
intaglio (third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed)
- To engrave or etch using intaglio
Anagrams
Italian
Noun
intaglio m (plural intagli)
Synonyms
Related terms
Verb
intaglio
- first-person singular present of intagliare