impaste

verb /ɪmˈpeɪst/

1. To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

   archaic, transitive

   Baked and impasted with the parching streets

   With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons,

2. To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

Where it comes from

From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

Adapted from the Wiktionary entry impaste (CC BY-SA 4.0).

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