Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun See
rilievo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun See
relief , n., 5.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun art
relief (surface carving)
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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The cedar-wood was beautifully embellished with figures in relievo, representing clusters of foliage, open flowers, cherubims, and palm trees.
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The relievo was his favourite performance, and very justly so.
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Perhaps the artist has bee brought in to polychrome a plaster relievo for an architectural decoration, and it is some third party sculptors studio.
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All the canals have bridges at stated distances; these bridges are bordered with balustrades of white marble sculptured in basso-relievo.
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And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like tallies.
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There was a time when the two sexes were only one, but now God has halved them, — much as the Lacedaemonians have cut up the Arcadians, — and if they do not behave themselves he will divide them again, and they will hop about with half a nose and face in basso relievo.
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And if we are not obedient to the gods, there is a danger that we shall be split up again and go about in basso-relievo, like the profile figures having only half a nose which are sculptured on monuments, and that we shall be like tallies.
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Baronet, kneeling in a square beard opposite his wife in a ruff: a very fat lady, the Dame Rebecca Clavering, in alto-relievo, is borne up to Heaven by two little blue-veined angels, who seem to have a severe task — and so forth.
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The old shabby church showed, as usual, its quaint extent of roofage and the relievo skeleton on one gable, still blackened with the fire of thirty years ago.
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The snow reprints it, as it were, in clear white type alto-relievo.
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