Intaglio

Pronunciation

• IPA: /ɪnˈtælɪəʊ/

Origin

Italian from intagliare.

Full definition of intaglio

Noun

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.

Antonyms

• (printing method) relief printing

Anagrams

• ligation