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cameoSmall relief carving of semi-precious stone, shell, or glass, in which a pale-coloured surface layer is carved to reveal a darker ground. Fine cameos were produced in ancient Greece and Rome, during the Renaissance, and in the Victorian era. They were used for decorating goblets and vases, and as jewellery. |
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| she asked to change the subject, looking at his finger on which he wore a ring with a cameo of Laocoon's head. She was milking Old Pretty thus, and the sun chancing to be on the milking-side it shone flat upon her pink-gowned form and her white curtain-bonnet, and upon her profile, rendering it keen as a cameo cut from the dun background of the cow. In my time a cameo set in pearls was thought sufficient. |
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