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intaglii

intaglii is the plural of intaglio.

Meaning of intaglio

Noun

intaglio (countable and uncountable, plural intagli or intaglios or intaglioes or intaglii)

  1. 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.1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
  2. Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
    Antonyms:
    relief printing

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Questions about intaglii

What is intaglii the plural of?
Intaglii is the plural of intaglio.

Words near intaglii in the dictionary

  1. intactnesses
  2. intagli
  3. intagliated
  4. intagliation
  5. intagliations
  6. intaglii
  7. intaglio
  8. intaglioed
  9. intaglioes
  10. intaglioing
  11. intaglios

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