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from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • noun Half relief; sculpture in relief of which the figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.
  • noun A work of sculpture of the above character. See alto-rilievo.

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  • noun art Half relief; sculpture in relief, whose figures project from the background by one half their full roundness.

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demi- + Italian rilievo.

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