| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| contrapposto |
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| SYLLABICATION: | con·trap·pos·to |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  k n tr -ps t |
| NOUN: | The position of a figure in painting or sculpture in which the hips and legs are turned in a different direction from that of the shoulders and head; the twisting of a figure on its own vertical axis. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Italian, past participle of contrapporre, to set opposite, contrast, from Latin contr pnere : contr-, contra- + pnere, to place; see apo- in Appendix I.
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