Etymology

chiaro-oscuro

Italian chiaro-oscuro ← French clair-obscur
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The story

  1. French · derived fromclair-obscur
  2. Italian · borrowed fromchiaro-oscuro
  3. English todaychiaro-oscuro

From Italian chiaro-oscuro, under influence from French clair-obscur.

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.