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Date: 1600-1700
Language: Italian
Origin: intagliare 'to cut in'

intaglio

 noun
     
Related topics: Visual
in‧ta‧gli‧o plural intaglios [uncountable and countable]
AV the art of cutting patterns into a hard substance, or the pattern that you get by doing this
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