MEANING
Painting mainly in shades of gray, often intended to resemble sculptural relief.
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- grisaille panel
- grisaille painting
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A grisaille panel imitated figures carved into stone.
The chapel's grisaille painting had darkened around the candles.
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- grisaille
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Primary category: gothic. Forms: Usually mass noun; plural grisailles for works. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings.
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