Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A colored print produced by chromolithography.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To produce by means of chromolithography.
- noun A picture or print obtained by the process of chromolithog-raphy. Often abbreviated to
chromo .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A picture printed in tints and colors by repeated impressions from a series of stones prepared by the lithographic process.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun A
print made bychromolithography .
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Examples
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Mary Evans/Everett Collection A chromolithograph depicting people from Portugal with a sewing machine was used as an advertisement card from the World Columbian Exposition in Chicago in 1892.
Singer Postcard Ads 2011
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He had turned his head, and was looking oh-so-casually off toward the chromolithograph of Bonnie Prince Charlie with which Mrs. Baird had seen fit to decorate our wall.
Sick Cycle Carousel 2010
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Called "Medical Anatomy...," this chromolithograph is the product of a collaboration between anatomist Francis Sibson and artist William Fairland.
"Medical Anatomy...," Francis Sibson, anatomist, and William Fairland, artist, 1869 JE 2008
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The chromolithograph with its flesh reds stands as an oval vignette on the creamy fragment of coated paper.
The Cunning of Francis Bacon Bell, Julian 2007
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In this Currier & Ives chromolithograph, the Queen of the West is taking on the Morning Star.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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In this Currier & Ives chromolithograph, the Queen of the West is taking on the Morning Star.
Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005
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Above Peregrine's head a chromolithograph gazed from its frame at Tarrant, a Rembrandt self-portrait.
The Boat of a Million Years Anderson, Poul, 1926- 1989
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Rattler for rattle-snake, pike for turnpike, draw for drawbridge, coon for raccoon, possum for opossum, cuss for customer, cute for acute, squash for askutasquashthese American back-formations are already antique; Sabbaday for Sabbath-day has actually reached the dignity of an archaism, as has the far later chromo for chromolithograph.
Chapter 6. Tendencies in American. 3. Processes of Word-Formation Henry Louis 1921
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A crude chromolithograph of their martyrdom, widely scattered among the Christian tribes, still cries to the people for blood-vengeance.
High Albania Mary Edith 1909
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A Bible is lying on the chest of drawers; over the door to the hall hangs a chromolithograph of
The Dramatic Works of Gerhart Hauptmann Volume II Gerhart Hauptmann 1904
brtom commented on the word chromolithograph
"... all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his master-piece with chromolithographic illustrations."
Joyce, Ulysses, 14
January 20, 2007