Meaning of Intaglio | Babel Free

Definitions

1. A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
   countable, uncountable
2. Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.
   countable, uncountable

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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.”

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