impaste

English

Etymology

From im- (“in”) +‎ paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpeɪst/
• Rhymes: -eɪst

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Verb

impaste (third-person singular simple present impastes, present participle impasting, simple past and past participle impasted)

1. (transitive, archaic) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
   • c. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:

     With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,
     Baked and impasted with the parching streets

2. (art) To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

References

impaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

Anagrams

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