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# Word of the Day
- URL: https://goodoil.news/word-of-the-day-68/
- Published: 2019-10-07T17:15:35.000Z
- Updated: 2019-10-07T17:47:44.000Z
- Author: Peter Andersen
- Tags: General, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2024-07-17 03:49

The word for today is…

bas-relief (noun) – (Art Terms) sculpture in low relief, in which the forms project slightly from the background but no part is completely detached from it. Also called (Italian): basso rilievo

Source : [The Free Dictionary](https://www.thefreedictionary.com/bas-relief?ref=goodoil.news)

Etymology : The best way to understand the meaning of bas-relief is to see one—and the easiest way to do that is to look at a dollar, 50 cents or other coin and examine the raised images on it; they’re all bas-reliefs. English speakers adopted bas-relief from French (where bas means “low” and relief means “raised work”) during the mid-1600s; earlier, we borrowed the synonymous basso-relievo from Italian. The French and Italian terms have common ancestors (and, in fact, the French word is likely a translation of the Italian), but English speakers apparently borrowed the two independently. Bas-relief is more prevalent in English today, although the Italian-derived term has not disappeared completely from the language.