impaste
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪmˈpeɪst/
Verb

impaste (impastes, present participle impasting; past and past participle impasted)

  1. (transitive, archaic) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
    • c. 1599–1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene ii]:
      With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets
  2. (art) To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.



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