Sentence:  Only when the collage had been exhaustively translated into oil , and transformed by this translation , did Cubism become an affair of positive color and flat , interlocking <WSD>silhouettes</WSD> whose legibility and placement created allusions to , if not the illusion of , unmistakable three-dimensional identities . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  an outline of a solid object (as cast by its shadow)