CHIAROSCURO

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 I. (noun) 

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Meaning:

A monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color

Classified under:

Nouns denoting man-made objects

Hypernyms ("chiaroscuro" is a kind of...):

icon; ikon; image; picture (a visual representation (of an object or scene or person or abstraction) produced on a surface)

Hyponyms (each of the following is a kind of "chiaroscuro"):

grisaille (chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of grey imitating the effect of relief)

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