Definition of Intagleo
Intaglio, name given to a gem with a design incised in the surface.
- Wikipedia
In*tagl"io (?), n.; pl. E.
Intaglius (#), It. Intagli (#).
[It., fr. intagliare to engrave, carve; pref. in- in +
tagliare to cut, carve. See Detail.] A cutting or
engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a
design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything
so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to
cameo. Also used adjectively.
- Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
- a design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something
*1973: 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 — Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
- The Nuttall Encyclopedia
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