impasto

Etymology

Borrowed from Italian impasto.

Noun

impasto (countable and uncountable, plural impastos)

1. (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
   • 1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 63:

     He was thinking, ʽGot to get a subject where a man can weight the impasto in light. Paint thin against light. Got to remember that.ʼ

   • 1973, Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow, 1st US edition, New York: Viking Press, →ISBN, part 1: Beyond the Zero, page 5:

     […] all got scumbled together, eventually, by the knives of the seasons, to an impasto, feet thick, of unbelievable black topsoil in which anything could grow, not the least being bananas.

Verb

impasto (third-person singular simple present impastoes, present participle impastoing, simple past and past participle impastoed)

1. (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.
   • 1991, Joyce Nakamura, Contemporary Authors Autobiographical Series, Volume 14‎:

     "She looked tall to me, and slim, with delicate Semitic features, and a full mouth that she impastoed with red lipstick to play against her […] "

Anagrams

• ampotis, matipos

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /imˈpa.sto/
• Rhymes: -asto
• Hyphenation: im‧pà‧sto

Etymology 1

Deverbal from impastare +‎ -o.

Etymology 2

Borrowed from Latin impastus, from im- (“not”) + pastus, past participle of pascī (“to eat, to feed”).

Etymology 3

Anagrams

• imposta