The Collaborative International Dictionary
Basso-relievo
Basso-rilievo \Bas"so-ri*lie"vo\, Basso-relievo \Bas"so-re*lie"vo\, n. [It. basso-rilievo.] Same as Bas-relief.
Usage examples of "basso-relievo".
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.