impasto

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impasto

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Borrowed from Italian impasto.

noun impastos

countable, uncountable The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting. He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ

verb impastoes · impastoing · impastoed

To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style. "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […]"

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noun the use of a thick-bodied paint to create sizable peaks and crests in an image

Русский	импа́сто impásto

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@misc{impasto_2026,
  title = {impasto},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/impasto},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}