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Foreign languages and dictionaries can lead to better , but also to misunderstanding. Cameo at first came out of the search as :carving or scratching. Only later I found cameo in the meaning of gem, precious stone with relief carving. Sorry , Aramis. One of the many little cultural shocks.
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Though I must admit and post script that it is a beautiful bird cameo.
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No, this was cameo as in a brief walk-on appearance in a movie. Is that usage rather obscure, gang?
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No, this was cameo as in a brief walk-on appearance in a movie. Is that usage rather obscure, gang? Not to native speakers, probably. Note BranShea's provenance.
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but I can't hear that use of cameo without thinking of Hitchcock who always managed to appear somewhere in his film.
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Cameo cremes are some of my favourite Kiwi Bikkies yummy
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! Bikkies = biscuit! Here's what we (Edit: we in the States) know as Cameo cookies.
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Exactly; that is the way I think of it. It was a very clever device, among many attributed to that genius.
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