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A cutting or engraving; a figure cut into something, as a gem, so as to make a design depressed below the surface of the material; hence, anything so carved or impressed, as a gem, matrix, etc.; -- opposed to cameo. Also used adjectively.

Art of producing metal decorative work other than statuary, as reliefs, intaglios, engraving, chasing, etc.

Used in English only in the expression en creux. Thus, engraving en creux is engraving in intaglio, or by sinking or hollowing out the design.

An intaglio. Mollett.

red by the varnish, etc., receive a deposition of metal, and produce the required copy in intaglio. A cast of this is then the plate for printing.

Delicately carved ornamental work; intaglio. [Obs.] "A work of rich entail." Spenser.

The act or art of carving figures in hard substances, esp. by incision or in intaglio.

Engraved in intaglio; as, an intagliated stone. T. Warton.

A die, cut in intaglio, for stamping an ornament in relief, as upon metal.

ee citation); as, a polytype in relief. By pressing the wood cut into semifluid metal, an intaglio matrix is produced: and from this matrix, in a similar way, a polytype in relief is obtained. Hansard.

ardened after certain operations, is pressed upon a plate of lead or other soft metal. An intaglio impression in thus produced, from which pictures may be directly printed, but by a slower process than in common printing.