adumbration

Meaning

Noun

• The state of being in shadow or shade; a shadow.
• A faint sketch; a brief representation, an outline.
• A rough or symbolic representation; a vague indication of what is to come, a foreshadowing.
• The form of an object as seen by an observer.

Origin

• . Adumbrō is derived from ad- + umbrō (from umbra).
• Sense 2.1 (“(heraldry) outline of a charge”) is modelled after umbration.