Cameo vs Camo - What's the difference?
cameo | camo |
A piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief.
A single very brief appearance, especially by a prominent celebrity in a movie or song.
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, passage=As they turned into Hertford Street they startled a robin from the poet's head on a barren fountain, and he fled away with a cameo note.}}
(textiles) A pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.
Clothes made from camouflage fabric, for concealment in combat or hunting.
As nouns the difference between cameo and camo
is that cameo is a piece of jewelry, etc., carved in relief while camo is a pattern on clothing consisting of irregularly shaped patches that are either greenish/brownish, brownish/whitish, or bluish/whitish, as used by ground combat forces.As verbs the difference between cameo and camo
is that cameo is to appear in a cameo role while camo is to camouflage.cameo
English
(wikipedia cameo)Noun
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