Knielauf
Meanings
noun
- A schema for the depiction of rapid movement found particularly in Archaic Greek and Etruscan art, in which one knee is depicted as being bent to the point of nearly touching the ground.
Word forms
Etymology
Learned borrowing from German Knielauf.
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