[Lexicog] Looking for a word

[John Roberts]

Rudy Troike wrote:
>
> This seems to be the right group to ask about a word for something. A
> friend of mine, a literary scholar, is writing a paper on Renaissance
> art, and asked me if I knew a word for the contrast between light and
> dark. I'm sure that there is something lexicalized in English (more likely
> in German!) for this concept, but I can't surface it from my internal
> thesaurus. Any suggestions?
>

shade (n) 2. a colour, especially with regard to how light or dark it is ...
(NODE)

John Roberts




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