intaglio

noun /ɪnˈtæl.jəʊ/

1. A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.

   countable, uncountable

   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.

2. Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

   countable, uncountable

Where it comes from

Borrowed from Italian intaglio, from intagliare (“to engrave”).

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

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