ba : Idioms & Phrases

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bas bleu

  • noun a woman having literary or intellectual interests
    bluestocking.
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bas mitzvah

  • noun (Judaism) an initiation ceremony marking the 12th birthday of a Jewish girl and signifying the beginning of religious responsibility
    bat mitzvah; bath mitzvah.
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bas relief

  • noun a sculptural relief in which forms extend only slightly from the background; no figures are undercut
    low relief; basso rilievo; basso relievo.
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bas-relief

Bas`-re*lief" noun
Etymology
F. bas-relief; bas law + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. It. bassorilievo.
Definitions
  1. Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; -- called also bassrelief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.
Webster 1913