intaglio

Etymology

Italian, from intagliare.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/

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.

Verb

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

1. To engrave or etch using intaglio

Anagrams

• ligation, logitian, taglioni

Noun

intaglio m (plural intagli)

1. carving, engraving, intaglio

Verb

intaglio

1. first-person singular present of intagliare

Anagrams

• litigano
• taglioni

Noun

intaglio m (plural intaglios)

1. intaglio