intaglio

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Contents 1 English 1.1 Etymology 1.2 Pronunciation 1.3 Noun 2 Italian 2.1 Noun 2.1.1 Synonyms 2.1.2 Related terms 2.2 Verb

[edit] English

[edit] Etymology

Italian from intagliare.

[edit] Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪn'tælɪəʊ/

[edit] Noun

intaglio (plural intagli or intaglios or intaglii)

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.

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[edit] Italian

[edit] Noun

intaglio m. (plural intagli)

1. carving, engraving, intaglio

[edit] Synonyms

• incisione

[edit] Related terms

• intagliare
• intagliatore

[edit] Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present tense of intagliare