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intaglio

UK/ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/US/ɪnˈtæl.i.(j)oʊ/

intaglio noun: a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.

intaglio: a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something
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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

Verb

intaglio (third-person singular simple present intaglios, present participle intaglioing, simple past and past participle intaglioed)

  1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.

intaglio meaning in Urdu and Indonesian

intaglio in Urdu

گہری چھپائی, کندہ کاری

intaglio in Indonesian

printing method
cetak dalam, intaglio

Antonyms of intaglio

Forms of intaglio

Noun
pluralintagli
pluralintaglios
pluralintaglioes
pluralintaglii
Verb
third-person singular presentintaglios
present participleintaglioing
past participleintaglioed
pastintaglioed

Plural of intaglio: intagli or intaglios

Origin of intaglio

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

Words formed from intaglio

Questions about intaglio

What does intaglio mean?
Intaglio means a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
What is intaglio in Urdu?
Intaglio in Urdu is گہری چھپائی, کندہ کاری. See Intaglio meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is intaglio?
Intaglio can be a noun or a verb.
How do you pronounce intaglio?
Intaglio is pronounced /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/ (UK).
What is the plural of intaglio?
The plural of intaglio is intagli.

Words near intaglio in the dictionary

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

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intaglio (page history and authors); intaglio (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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