intaglio
See also: intagliò
English

Etymology
Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).
Pronunciation
Noun
intaglio (countable and uncountable, 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.
- (printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
- Antonym: relief printing
- Hyponyms: etching, engraving, drypoint
- Coordinate terms: relief printing, planography
Derived terms
Translations
design or piece of art
printing method
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Verb
intaglio (third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed)
Further reading
intaglio (printmaking) on Wikipedia.Wikipedia
Italian
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /inˈtaʎ.ʎo/
- Rhymes: -aʎʎo
- Hyphenation: in‧tà‧glio
Etymology 1
Deverbal from intagliare + -o.
Related terms
Descendants
- → English: intaglio
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