Chiaro-oscuro
- n. The art or practice of so arranging the light and dark parts as to produce a harmonious effect. Cf. Clair-obscur.
- n. The arrangement of light and dark parts in a work of art, such as a drawing or painting, whether in monochrome or in color.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.