intaglio

Etymology

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

noun

1. A design or piece of art which is engraved or etched into something.
   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. 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
2. (printing) Any printing method in which the ink is laid upon the sunken parts of the printing form.

verb

1. To engrave or etch using intaglio.