Definitions for cameos

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cameos cam·e·o

Spelling: [kam-ee-oh]

IPA: /ˈkæm iˌoʊ/

Cameos is a 6 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 9 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 11 points.

You can make 139 anagrams from letters in cameos (acemos).

Definitions for cameos

noun

1. a technique of engraving upon a gem or other stone, as onyx, in such a way that an underlying stone of one color is exposed as a background for a low-relief design of another color.
2. a gem or other stone so engraved.
3. a literary sketch, small dramatic scene, or the like, that effectively presents or depicts its subject.
4. Also called cameo role. a minor part played by a prominent performer in a single scene of a motion picture or a television play.

Origin of cameos

1375-1425; Italian cam(m)eo Old French camaieu, of uncertain origin; replacing late Middle English camew, cameu Old French

Examples for cameos

“And Miss Murgatroyd could have sailed away in her cameo,” he said.

At her throat, she had a cameo, and on her left hand, an amethyst set in tiny pearls.

And she detached the cameo which fastened the peplum upon her shoulder.

Heck, I even remember his cameo in Ace Ventura: Pet Detective back in the early '90s —this guy was a hero back when I was a kid.

Here is money and here is the cameo you have so often admired.

I had not my veil on, nor my rings, and my cameo belt was not fastened.

The film stars Michael Parks, Justin Long, Haley Joel Osment, and features a cameo by Johnny Depp.

[Laughs] I was down there watching him for a while—I did a cameo with him at the end of the film—and he was very funny.

Tarantino would later cast Chiba in a cameo as legendary sword maker Hattori Hanzo in Kill Bill: Vol.

I went to Siena, which was cast as Perugia, for a cameo role as a television journalist in the film.