CAMAIEU is also frequently applied to any kind of gem, wherein figures may be engraved either indented or in relief. In this sense the lapidaries of Paris are called in their statutes, cutters of camayeux.
A society of learned men at Florence undertook to procure all the cameos or camayeux and intaglios in the great duke's gallery to be engraved, and began to draw the heads of divers emperors in cameos.