Noun: chiaro-scuro
Sample Sentences
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CHIARO-SCURO, among painters. See Claro-obscuro. [1771, Encyclopaedia Britannica, 1st ed., Vol. II, p. 183]
Nouns inflected like chiaro-scuro
greyware,
chronotropy,
urgrund,
cytosorting,
homekeeping,
pedobaiting,
winterdress,
JLNS,
rumpology,
hopkinsiaxanthin,
enchylemma,
further education,
hexobendine,
humdrumminess,
unobligingness,
backscroll,
telocinobufagin,
dosulepin,
mensuralism,
crème de framboise, etc. (List truncated at 20 nouns)
Etymology
From Italian chiaroscuro. See: Italian Nouns '
chiaroscuro'.