an incised or engraved design made in hard material, esp stone, and sunk below the surface of the material
the process of producing such designs
printing done from a plate engraved in intaglio
something, e.g. a gem, carved in intaglio
intagliated adj
intaglioed adj
[Italian intaglio, from intagliare to engrave, from in- (from Latin in-2) + tagliare to cut]