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Grandma's brooch
Answer for the clue "Grandma's brooch ", 5 letters:
cameo
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Word definitions for cameo in dictionaries
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Cameo \Cam"e*o\ (k[a^]m"[-e]*[-o]), n.; pl. Cameos (k[a^]m"[-e]*[=o]z). [It. cammeo; akin to F. cam['e]e, cama["i]eu, Sp. camafeo, LL. camaeus, camahutus; of unknown origin.] A carving in relief, esp. one on a small scale used as a jewel for personal ...
Usage examples of cameo.
It was the head of a mediaeval saint, austere and beautiful, sharp as a cameo against its own black shadow.
Inside, Judy Cuttle had done what she could to turn a mobile home into an Edwardian farmhouse, complete with antimacassars and rusty photos in bamboo frames of geezers in waistcoats and glum women in cameoes.
When it was time for dinner, Houston was dressed in pale green silk faille with a green net overlay embroidered with cut-steel bugle beads, a large pink cameo at her waist.
The sienna suede jacket, pencil-legged faded denims, and white tank top were too severe for her cameo looks, but as Keri put it, she preferred leather over lace.
The museum comprehended an infinite number of medals, coins, urns, utensils, seals, cameos, intaglios, precious stones, vessels of agate and jasper, crystals, spars, fossils, metals, minerals, ore, earths, sands, salts, bitumens, sulphurs, ambergrise, talcs, mirre, testacea, corals, sponges, echini, echenites, asteri, trochi, crustatia, stellae marine, fishes, birds, eggs and nests, vipers, serpents, quadrupeds, insects, human calculi, anatomical preparations, seeds, gums, roots, dried plants, pictures, drawings, and mathematical instruments.
At a candlelit chapel, a sculpture of the Veiled Christ moved me to tears, and at a cameo factory in the Sulfatara, he bought me a pair of earrings.
The cameo face had never been stiller, more concentrated, more commanding.
It was a modest affair: a smooth wedge of obsidian shaped like a metronome, undecorated save for two cameo portraits set in elliptical borders.
She snapped her head around to stare at him, her cameo features twisted by a gloating smile, and that smile told Eliot everything he had wanted to know about the possibility of escape.
Matt Joyson proceeded to develop for the troupe a cameo drama which played to extremely limited houses, but with more profit to the performers than any production in which they had previously appeared.
Saint gasped with reverent wonder as he looked at the cameo head carved on the unbelievable gem.
Oriental craftsman who had chiseled those features which were the essence of beautythat wily fellow had breathed upon the cameo gem a curse.
Yamato sat next to me, most of the time holding the little gift box with the earrings in it, like a mystical artifact from his heart I had a gift box, too, with an onyx cameo showing a smiling woman, who I hoped would be Natelle.
In fact, she thought, as she removed the lovely cameo, she was pleased to be back at the hotel.
Placing the delicate cameo on the dresser, Jenna turned around to speak.