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Vinony

intaglio

noun

  1. sculptural work created by carving or incising a sunken design
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Wiktionary

Pronunciation: /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ / /ɪnˈtɑl.jəʊ/ / /ɪnˈtɑl.iˌəʊ/

noun

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

  1. 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.”

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

verb

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

  1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.