intaglio
Pronunciation
  • IPA: /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/
Noun

intaglio

  1. 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.
  2. (printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
    Antonyms: relief printing
    Coordinate terms: relief printing#English|relief printing, planography#English|planography
    hyponyms en
Translations Translations Verb

intaglio (intaglios, present participle intaglioing; past and past participle intaglioed)

  1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.



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