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CLARO-OBISSURO

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or Chiario-seuro, is also used to signify a design consisting only of two colours, most usually black and white, but sometimes black and yellow; or it is a design worked only with one colour, the shadows being of a dulky brown, and the lights heightened up by white.

The word is also applied to prints of two colours taken off at twice; whereof there are volumes in the cabinets of those who are curious in prints.