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cameo

cameo

4 7.7
A small oval piece of jewelry with a carved picture on a different colored background
  • noun
  • /ˈkeɪmiˌoʊ/
translation icon : camafeo
  • Mr. Mason, uh, you say, she was wearing a green cameo ring.
  • cameo brooch
  • pearl cameo
  • cameo necklace

Examples

  • One has an inlaid pearl setting off an ivory cameo of the Last Supper.

    Blog text (31)

  • This beautiful cameo features a delicate carved portrait of a woman.

  • This cameo is over 100 years old.

    Poltergeist (1982)

  • I only want this cameo.

    Conflict (1945)

  • She wore a real cameo on a chain around her neck.

    Fiction book (1999)

  • This is your grandma St. George's cameo.

    Dolores Claiborne (1995)

  • The result was a picture of surface relief, a likeness more akin to a carved cameo than to a photograph.

    Academic text (1993)

  • They'd never have been able to recognize her remains -if it hadn't been for her cameo brooch.

    Cavalcade (1933)

  • "You always wear a string of pearls, or a cameo, or today this heart-shaped locket.

    Fiction book (1995)

  • She wore a stunning cameo brooch that caught everyone's attention at the party.

Surface Forms

cameo singular
cameos plural

Etymology

Cameo comes from Italian cammeo, a word for a small carved gem or tiny portrait used as a piece of jewelry like a necklace or ring, and it originally meant that carved jewel 'small carved gem'.