Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
relief , 9.
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Examples
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In two hours I was at the top of the hill, looking out over the intervening valley at the long lake of Zurich, spread there beyond with its girdle of low hills, like a relief-map.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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I had a feeling as if it were false, a large relief-map that I was looking down upon, and which I wanted to smash.
Twilight in Italy 2003
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His upper arms and shoulders were a grotesque relief-map of veins and muscular striation.
Achille's Choice Niven, Larry 1991
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Seen in terms of space, history shrivels into a mere wrinkling or furrowing of the surface as in an aerial relief-map or one of those pieced-together aerial photographs known in the trade as mosaics.
Déjeuner sur l'Herbe McCarthy, Mary 1963
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The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!
The song of the lark 1915
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The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!
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The heavy emptiness of his face, as rugged as a relief-map in the side-light, even made me forget the smell of the scones Iroquois Annie was vindictively scorching down in the kitchen.
The Prairie Mother Arthur Stringer 1912
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The garden looked like a relief-map now, and gave no indication of what it would be in August; such a jungle!
The Song of the Lark Willa Sibert Cather 1910
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Always it became smaller, and more and more like a coloured relief-map with tiny, Noah's-ark houses.
The Rules of the Game Stewart Edward White 1909
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And this is why it is utterly pernicious to set a child making a clay relief-map of its own district, or to ask a child to draw conclusions from given observations.
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