mezzo-rilievo

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See also: mezzorilievo

English

Etymology

Italian mezzorilievo

Noun

mezzo-rilievo (countable and uncountable, plural mezzo-rilievos)

  1. (art) half-relief; a middle degree of relief in figures, between high and low relief
  2. (art) sculpture in this kind of relief

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Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for mezzo-rilievo”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)