Pronunciation: ' te-n ə - ˌ bri-z ə m
Function: noun
Usage: often cap
Etymology: Latin tenebrae darkness
Date: 1954
: a style of painting especially associated with the Italian painter Caravaggio and his followers in which most of the figures are engulfed in shadow but some are dramatically illuminated by a beam of light usually from an identifiable source
– ten · e · brist \ -brist \ noun or adjective often cap