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Meanings of relievo in English
Sculpture consisting of shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.
Synonyms
Examples for "relief"
Examples for "relief"
1
But the situation could change if fresh relief does not come soon.
2
She said disaster relief efforts were in progress in all affected areas.
3
Burning pain sends many victims into the nearest available water for relief.
4
Believe only relief organized by government on large scale can equal emergency.
5
The Friends in New York begin their well organised Irish relief work.
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But on every one of them, in the centre or some other part of the embossment, appeared this image of the sun.
2
There is something illusionistic about the synthesis of latex body and lace embossment: the materials seem at once perfectly mated and irreconcilably estranged.
3
Beyond it, a beetling cliff loomed, its craggy embossments picked out by starlight.
1
I think it was an eleemosynary smile, for my pleasantry seems to me a particularly basso rilievo, as I look upon it in cold blood.
1
The bodies of these giants are in high sculptural relief.
2
While the Intimate-and-friendly Motion Picture may be in high sculptural relief, its characteristic manifestations are in low relief.
3
Another of Mr Frost's works, sculptural relief inside the terminal entrance was destined for the bus terminal in Nelson City.
4
The surfaces of his pictures are built up to form rugged-looking sculptural reliefs.
5
This divine spa, part of the Hotel Padma Bali, is decorated with water features and impressive stone sculptural reliefs.
Usage of relievo in English
1
Here Noah drew out of his pocket a sort of basso relievo carved in pine.
2
So far as they exhibit system at all it is identical with the relievo elaboration.
3
It is a sort of checker, an emphasized presentation of the relievo pattern shown in Fig.
4
On the east side the arms of Scotland, with a Cupid holding a thistle all in relievo.
5
Just opposite grinned a red granite slab with a quaint basso-relievo taken from the ruins of Elora.
6
It is a very magnificent edifice, adorned on all sides with trophies and battles in basso relievo.
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Long rows of windows ranged away, separated by panoplies, in relievo, and by busts on small pedestals.
8
The statues and sculptures on the walls of the outer corridor are in alto relievo, and generally life-size.
9
I know that I used to like to play with Teddy Miles and Dick, hopscotch and marbles, and relievo.
10
This globe was made for the use of the blind, having upon it the countries and their names in relievo.
11
About the bases of the ponderous pillars are strange designs in relievo, eddyings of waves with tortoises struggling in the flow.
12
Place a sheet of not too transparent paper between the relievo and the light and you can draw thus very well.
13
Mr. Hewer was buried in the old Church at Clapham, where there is a large monument of marble in alto relievo erected to his memory.]
14
Relievo is a very rough game, and marbles makes one very dirty and dusty.
15
A high ceiling adorned with many-faced relievos and gilded cornices, circled over the chamber where the Lords assembled.
16
The Perrero examined the lower stalls, ferreting out among the Gothic relievos the discoveries enjoyed by his unwholesome curiosity.
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Relievo through the time