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US
/ˈkæmiˌoʊ/
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[ UK /kˈæmɪˌəʊ/ ]
[ UK /kˈæmɪˌəʊ/ ]
NOUN
- engraving or carving in low relief on a stone (as in a brooch or ring)
How To Use cameo In A Sentence
- The Cameo cinema in Edinburgh has just announced an Eighties all-nighter, featuring saccharine delights such as Pretty in Pink and Ferris Bueller's Day Off.
- It is called la table des Grands Capitaines, and the porcelain top features great military commanders, represented here in a stunning imitation of antique calcedony cameos. French Porcelain
- Ironically, it's Heston, in a small cameo role as an aging ape, who has the film's best moment.
- It was also the day that her cameo performance was aired. Times, Sunday Times
- Why it's still going The warm, buttery plots and familiar, approachable cast remind older viewers of the days when they could buy a pint for tuppence ha'penny and still have change for a misjudged June Whitfield cameo. Top Gear, New Tricks, Lewis … the television shows that won't die
- Early cameos are carved from hardstones such as onyx, sardonyx, or agate, while later a number of less expensive substances were used that were also easier to carve.
- Her two-song cameo, near the concert's midpoint, had all the rude conflagrant force of a meteor crashing onto the stage. NYT > Home Page
- This means that by the end of this year, you'll be able to own every single Marx Brothers feature - apart from The Story of Mankind with its brief, pointless cameos - for under a hundred bucks.
- Small oval portrait cameos, chosen and hung by Dors, decorate the walls.
- Carlyle didn't take much persuading to make a cameo appearance, and the resultant sketch - on the set of a war movie - is a riot of hamminess, spitting and bad German pronunciation.