intaglio

See also intagliò

English

Wikipedia

Etymology

Italian from intagliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/

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.

2. Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

Antonyms

• (printing method): relief printing

Translations

design or piece of art

printing method

• Czech: tisk zdola (cs) m

Anagrams

• ligation

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Italian

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

1. carving, engraving, intaglio

Synonyms

• incisione

Related terms

• intagliare
• intagliatore

Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present tense of intagliare

Anagrams

• litigano
• taglioni