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countable and uncountable, plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii
A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something. quotations examples
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.
1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
(printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form. examples
third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed
To engrave or etch using intaglio. examples