impaste
English
Etymology
From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.
Verb
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- (transitive) To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.
- William Shakespeare
- Blood […] baked and impasted.
- William Shakespeare
- (art) To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “impaste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)