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Meanings of intaglio in inglés

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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.

        entalhe

        Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)

              Usage of intaglio in inglés
              1
              Presently the competition stopped; she obtained the intaglio for a good price.
              The Child of Pleasure
              2
              It is an intaglio beside a cathedral, a humming-bird beside an eagle.
              My Contemporaries In Fiction
              3
              The black onyx intaglio brooch was the same one she'd always worn.
              The Demon Lover
              4
              They printed an intaglio of shadows on the patched tar of Motton Road.
              Under the dome: a novel
              5
              One form of press is used for all manner of intaglio plate printing.
              The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written ...
              6
              I return to a strange perforated pebble, an intaglio from Dumbuck.
              The Clyde Mystery / a Study in Forgeries and Folklore
              7
              Windsor, too, possesses a very delicate Ganymede, which seems intended for an intaglio.
              The Life of Michelangelo Buonarroti
              8
              But then it was notorious that Ben's bump of reverence was an intaglio.
              In Apple-Blossom Time: A Fairy-Tale to Date
              9
              The figures were intaglio, in a gem of transparent cerulean hue, and delicately painted.
              Philothea: A Grecian Romance
              10
              The evidences of engraving, both in relief and intaglio, are of very ancient date.
              The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 08 / The Later Ren...
              11
              Joe found one intaglio operation in Thailand which was using a converted squid-processing machine.
              Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
              12
              This entire process must be repeated for each print made from an intaglio plate.
              The Building of a Book / A Series of Practical Articles Written ...
              13
              Since this book went to press, the author has seen an antique intaglio, No.
              Michael Angelo Buonarroti / With Translations Of The Life Of The...
              14
              Do you know the difference between intaglio and lithography?
              Jack Reacher 01 - Killing Floor
              15
              The intaglio on the end is a lion rampant.
              Passages from the English Notebooks, Volume 1.
              16
              I have had her head cut in intaglio on this onyx; is she not pretty?
              A Friend of Cæsar: A Tale of the Fall of the Roman Republic. Tim...
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              portugués
              entalhe
              Intaglio through the time