Complete Definition of "intaglio"

English

Etymology
Italian, from intagliare.

Pronunciation
IPA: /ɪn'tælɪ��/

Noun
intaglio

  1. a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something

#:*1973: 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 � Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow


Italian

Noun
it-noun|intagl|m|io|i

  1. carving, engraving, intaglio#English|intaglio

Synonyms
incisione

Related terms
intagliare
intagliatore

Verb
intaglio

  1. first-person singular present tense of intagliare

Category:Italian verb forms

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