CHIAROSCURO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does chiaroscuro mean? 

• CHIAROSCURO (noun)
  The noun CHIAROSCURO has 1 sense:

1. a monochrome picture made by using several different shades of the same color

  Familiarity information: CHIAROSCURO used as a noun is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• CHIAROSCURO (noun)

Sense 1

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)