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basso-relievo

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base-court, basse-cour
1. A yard or ward behind the outer bailey of a castle.
2. On a farm, a service yard often reserved for fowl.
3. A lesser or service courtyard in any building.
4. (Brit.) A lower court of law.
bas-relief, basso-relievo, basso-rilievo
A carving, embossing, or casting moderately protruded from the background plane; low relief.
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A foreign friend once pointed it out to me, in the skeleton of a foe he had slain, and with the vertebrae of which he was inlaying, in a sort of basso-relievo, the beaked prow of his canoe.
Moby Dick LXVIII-CXXXIV by Melville, Herman View in context
 
 
 
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