intaglio

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Pronunciation

/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/(UK)

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/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/(UK) · /ɪnˈtɑl.jəʊ/(UK) · /ɪnˈtɑl.iˌəʊ/(UK) · /ɪnˈtæl.i.(j)oʊ/(US) · /ɪnˈtæl.joʊ/(US) · /ɪnˈtɑl.joʊ/(US)

Definition of intaglio

3 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

noun

(countable, uncountable)A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.

“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.”

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noun

(countable, uncountable)A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.

“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.”
(countable, uncountable)Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

verb

Definitions from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA.

Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

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