trapunto

[ truh-poon-toh ]

noun,plural tra·pun·tos.

quilting having an embossed design produced by outlining the pattern with single stitches and then padding it with yarn or cotton.

Origin of trapunto

1920–25; <Italian: embroidery, noun use of the adj.: embroidered, literally, pricked through (past participle of trapungere), equivalent to tra- (<Latin trā-, variant of trāns-trans-) + -punto<Latin pūnctus, equivalent to pung- (stem of pungere to prick) + -tus past participle suffix; see puncture

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British Dictionary definitions for trapunto

trapunto

/ (trəˈpʊntəʊ) /

nounplural -tos

a type of quilting that is only partly padded in a design

Origin of trapunto

Italian, from trapungere to embroider, from pungere to prick (from Latin)

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