Usually means: Sculpture with slight depth projection.
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We found 26 dictionaries that define the word bas-relief:

General (20 matching dictionaries)
  1. bas-relief: Merriam-Webster
  2. bas-relief: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. bas-relief: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. bas-relief, bas-relief: Collins English Dictionary
  5. Bas-relief, bas-relief: Wordnik
  6. bas-relief: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. bas-relief: Wiktionary
  8. bas-relief: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  9. bas-relief: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  10. bas-relief: Infoplease Dictionary
  11. bas-relief: Dictionary.com
  12. bas-relief: Online Etymology Dictionary
  13. Bas-Relief, Bas-relief: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  14. Bas-relief: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  15. bas-relief: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  16. Bas-relief: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  17. bas-relief: FreeDictionary.org
  18. bas-relief: TheFreeDictionary.com

Art (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bas-relief: ArtLex Lexicon of Visual Art Terminology

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  1. Construction Term Glossary (No longer online)

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bas-relief: Encyclopedia

Religion (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Bas-relief: Catholic Encyclopedia

Science (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Archaeology Wordsmith (No longer online)

Tech (1 matching dictionary)
  1. bas-relief: Glossary of Medieval Architecture

Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  (sculpture) A low or mostly-flat sculpture which is carved into a wall, or is in the form of a tile mounted flat to a wall, rather than a fully three-dimensional, free-standing figure.
adjective:  Refers to any aspect of sculpture which is flat or in the bas relief style.

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