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Webster 1828 Edition
Cameo
CAMEO
, CAMAIEU, OR CAMAYEU,Noun.
The word is applied by others to those precious stones, onyxes, carnelians and agates, on which lapidaries employ their art, to aid nature and perfect the figures.
The word is also applied to any gem on which figures may be engraved.
The word signifies also a painting in which there is only one color, and where the lights and shadows are of gold, wrought on a golden or azure ground. When the ground is yellow, the French call it cirage; when gray, grisaille. This work is chiefly used to represent bassorelievos.
Camera obscura, or dark chamber, in optics, an apparatus representing an artificial eye, in which the images of external objects, received through a double convex glass, are exhibited distinctly, and in their native colors, on a white matter, placed within the machine, in the focus of the glass.
Definition 2024
cameo
cameo
See also: caméo
English
Noun
cameo (plural cameos or cameoes)
- A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
- A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
- Famous comic book writer Stan Lee had a cameo in the Spider-Man movie. He was on screen for perhaps ten seconds, but aficionados distinctly remember him.
- 1922, Michael Arlen, “Ep./4/2”, in “Piracy”: A Romantic Chronicle of These Days:
- As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.
Translations
relief work
brief appearance
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Verb
cameo (third-person singular simple present cameos, present participle cameoing, simple past and past participle cameoed)
- To appear in a cameo role.