intaglio
Pronunciation
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Pronunciation
- IPA: /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/
intaglio
- 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:
- (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
- Portuguese: entalho
- French: taille-douce
- German: Tiefdruckverfahren
intaglio (intaglios, present participle intaglioing; past and past participle intaglioed)
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