The Collaborative International Dictionary
Bas-relief \Bas`-re*lief"\, n. [F. bas-relief; bas low + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. It. bassorilievo.] Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bass-relief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Wiktionary
n. (dated form of bas relief English)
Usage examples of "bass-relief".
On the Mexican feroher before alluded to, and which is most elaborately carved in bass-relief on a massive piece of polygonous granite, constituting a portion of a cyclopean wall, the cross is enclosed within the ring, and accompanying it are four tassel-like ornaments, graved equally well.
Altars, chandeliers, and ornaments were made of shoulder-bones and vertebrae, with bass-reliefs of human joints, horrible and tasteless as the whole idea.