half relief

noun

1. mezzo-relievo.

Example Sentences

She started a little and gave him a look, half wonder, half relief, and then fell to twisting the fringe of her poor shawl again.

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It was carved in half-relief, a full-length figure life-size, stretched out on a ledge of natural rock.

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A very celebrated curiosity is the large urn or vase of blue glass, with figures carved on it in half relief, in white.

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They are in half relief; and, so far as we could decipher them, they seemed to be Toltec rather than Aztec.

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These medallions are mounted by flattening the subject considerably so it is in little more than half relief.

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