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.
Glyptic art consisting of a sunken or depressed engraving or carving on a stone or gem (as opposed to cameo)
1 Presently the competition stopped; she obtained the intaglio for a good price.
2 It is an intaglio beside a cathedral, a humming-bird beside an eagle.
3 The black onyx intaglio brooch was the same one she'd always worn.
4 They printed an intaglio of shadows on the patched tar of Motton Road.
5 One form of press is used for all manner of intaglio plate printing.
6 I return to a strange perforated pebble, an intaglio from Dumbuck.
7 Windsor, too, possesses a very delicate Ganymede, which seems intended for an intaglio .
8 But then it was notorious that Ben's bump of reverence was an intaglio .
9 The figures were intaglio , in a gem of transparent cerulean hue, and delicately painted.
10 The evidences of engraving, both in relief and intaglio , are of very ancient date.
11 Joe found one intaglio operation in Thailand which was using a converted squid-processing machine.
12 This entire process must be repeated for each print made from an intaglio plate.
13 Since this book went to press, the author has seen an antique intaglio , No.
14 Do you know the difference between intaglio and lithography?
15 The intaglio on the end is a lion rampant.
16 I have had her head cut in intaglio on this onyx; is she not pretty?
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