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intarsio

intarsio is the alternative form of intarsia.

Meaning of intarsia

Noun

intarsia (countable and uncountable, plural intarsias)

  1. A decorative form of Italian wood inlaying.
    • The steps of the raised temple in which the saint and the basilisk perform have a beautiful intarsia of foliage similar to that on the Giants' Staircase at the Doges' Palace.1914, Edward Verrall Lucas, A Wanderer in Venice, New York: Macmillan
    Synonyms:
    tarsia, tarsiatura
  2. A knitted design resembling a mosaic.

Forms of intarsio

pluralintarsios

Questions about intarsio

What is intarsio the alternative form of?
Intarsio is the alternative form of intarsia.

Words near intarsio in the dictionary

  1. intangles
  2. intangling
  3. intarsia
  4. intarsias
  5. intarsiate
  6. intarsio
  7. intarsios
  8. intarsist
  9. intarsists
  10. intarweb
  11. intasome

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Adapted from Wiktionary: intarsio (page history and authors); intarsia (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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