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Webster 1913 Edition


Intaglio

In-tagl′io

,
Noun.
;
pl. E.
Intaglius
(#)
, It.
Intagli
(#)
.
[It., fr.
intagliare
to engrave, carve; pref.
in-
in +
tagliare
to cut, carve. See
Detail
.]
A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; – opposed to
cameo
. Also used adjectively.

Webster 1828 Edition


Intaglio

INTAGLIO

,
Noun.
intal'yo. Literally, a cutting or engraving; hence, any thing engraved, or a precious stone with a head or an inscription engraved on it.

Definition 2024


intaglio

intaglio

See also: intagliò

English

Noun

intaglio (plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes 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.

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Verb

intaglio (third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed)

  1. To engrave or etch using intaglio

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Italian

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

  1. carving, engraving, intaglio

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Related terms

Verb

intaglio

  1. first-person singular present of intagliare

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