impaste

verb — 2 senses

impaste

verb

/ɪmˈpeɪst/

Etymology From im- (“in”) + paste. Compare Italian impastare, Old French empaster.

1

Archaic To knead; to make into paste; to concrete.

  • With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streetsc. 1599–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Hamlet, Prince of Denmarke”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act II, scene ii]:
2

Art, Arts To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

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