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An engraving or incised figure in stone or other hard material.

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  • Naturally he is writing a book on intaglios, and it will be a good one.
  • "Two motorcycles came in and tore up and destroyed 85 percent of the intaglios deliberately," Schalk recalls.
  • She pursued her studies for the mere love of the science, devoting a year in Italy to mosaics, cameos, and intaglios.
  • It was he who segregated the Renaissance intaglios at Bloomsbury only the winter before he exposed the composite figurines at Berlin.
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