Intaglio
WordNet
noun
(1) Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)
(2) A printing process that uses an etched or engraved plate; the plate is smeared with ink and wiped clean, then the ink left in the recesses makes the print
WiktionaryText
Noun
- A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
- 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow:
- 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:
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