Chiaroscuro (noun)
kee-aro-scoo-ro
The distribution of light and shade in a picture.
Chiaroscuro was first recorded in English between 1680–90, and comes from Italian and is composed of chiaro, meaning “bright,” and oscuro, meaning “dark.”
From chiaro comes the English word clear, “free from darkness; light,” and from oscuro comes obscure, “not clear” or “lacking in light.”
Example sentences
“The photograph captured the beautiful chiaroscuro of the sunset across the mountains.”
Meraki (Μεράκι) (Greek) (noun) me-rah-kee To do something with soul, creativity, and love. When someone cooks with meraki, builds with meraki, writes with meraki, they’ve poured themselves into it. Derived…
