Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913
Bas-relief
Bas′-re·lief′, n. [F. bas-relief; bas low + relief raised work, relever to raise: cf. It. bassorilievo.] Low relief; sculpture, the figures of which project less than half of their true proportions; — called also bass-relief and basso-rilievo. See Alto-rilievo.