intaglio

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intaglio

/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ UK
/ɪnˈtɑl.jəʊ/ UK
/ɪnˈtɑl.iˌəʊ/ UK
/ɪnˈtæl.i.(j)oʊ/ US
/ɪnˈtæl.joʊ/ US
/ɪnˈtɑl.joʊ/ US

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Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

noun intagli · intaglios · intaglioes · intaglii

countable, uncountable A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something. 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.
countable, uncountable Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
Opposite: relief printing

verb intaglios · intaglioing · intaglioed

To engrave or etch using intaglio.

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noun design or piece of art

Português	entalho
Ελληνικά	έγγλυφος énglyfos, έγγλυφη énglyfi, έγγλυφο énglyfo, εγχάρακτος encháraktos, εγχάρακτη enchárakti, εγχάρακτο enchárakto

noun printing method

Français	taille-douce
Deutsch	Tiefdruckverfahren
Ελληνικά	εγγλυφή englyfí

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@misc{intaglio_2026,
  title = {intaglio},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/intaglio},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}