Usually means: Thick, textured application of paint.
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We found 27 dictionaries that define the word impasto:

General (19 matching dictionaries)
  1. impasto: Merriam-Webster
  2. impasto: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. impasto: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. impasto: Collins English Dictionary
  5. impasto: Vocabulary.com
  6. impasto: Wordnik
  7. impasto: Wiktionary
  8. impasto: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. impasto: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. impasto: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. Impasto, impasto: Dictionary.com
  12. Impasto (pottery), Impasto: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  13. Impasto: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  14. impasto: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  15. impasto: Rhymezone
  16. Impasto, impasto: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. impasto: FreeDictionary.org
  18. impasto: Mnemonic Dictionary
  19. impasto: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (4 matching dictionaries)
  1. impasto: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology
  2. Impasto: Art Glossary: Terminology for artists
  3. Impasto: art glossary
  4. IMPASTO: Glossary of Art Terms

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impasto: Encyclopedia

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. impasto: Wordcraft Dictionary

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

(Note: See impastoed as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (impasto)

noun:  (painting) The use of a thick-bodied paint to create peaks and crests that physically extend from the surface of a painting.
verb:  (painting) To paint in thick-bodied paint; to paint in impasto style.

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