Impaste

//ɪmˈpeɪst// verb

verb ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Verb
  1. 1
    To knead; to make into paste; to concrete. archaic, transitive

    "With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets"

  2. 2
    To lay colours thickly on canvas by the impasto technique.

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"With blood of fathers, mothers, daughters, sons, Baked and impasted with the parching streets"

Etymology

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

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