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Chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief
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grisaille
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Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) In painting, a method of working which employs only varying values of gray to create form. Often a preliminary step in a fully colored painting.
Wikipedia
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Grisaille ( or ; 'grey') is a term for a painting executed entirely in shades of grey or of another neutral greyish colour. It is particularly used in large decorative schemes in imitation of sculpture. Many grisailles in fact include a slightly wider colour ...
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n. chiaroscuro painting or stained glass etc., in shades of gray imitating the effect of relief
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Grisaille \Gri"saille`\, n. [F., from gris gray.] (Fine Arts) Decorative painting in gray monochrome; -- used in English especially for painted glass. A kind of French fancy dress goods. --Knight.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
painting technique, 1848, from French grisaille (17c.), from gris "gray" (12c.), from a Germanic source (see ambergris ).
Usage examples of grisaille.
Quietly now went her steed, with the cunning of his kind, his horny feet making no sound, scarcely dislodging a leaf of the gray sedges or strange grisaille grasses.
They shifted the bedroom from a familiar collection of grisaille outlines to a strong two-tone portrait of red and impenetrable black.
In the end he struck his head against the feet of a hanged man who, swaying from a tree, made of himself a grisaille grotesque.