Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- adjective Having many or various colors; polychromatic.
- adjective Made or decorated in many or various colors.
- noun An object or a work composed of or decorated in many colors.
from The Century Dictionary.
- Having or tinted with several or many colors; executed in the manner of polychromy: as, polychrome sculpture; polychrome architecture.
- noun A fluorescent substance (C21H24O13), forming prismatic crystals, odorless,with a bitter taste and slight acid reaction.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.), rare Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions.
- adjective Executed in the manner of polychromy.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective Executed in the manner of
polychromy ; as, polychrome printing.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- adjective having or exhibiting many colors
- noun a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors
- verb color with many colors; make polychrome
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Examples
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The 16th Century figure of Our Lady of Zapopan, made of pasta de caña (a paste made from the insides of corn stalks) and covered with gesso and polychrome, is said to be the second-most venerated Virgin in Mexico, following Our Lady of Guadalupe.
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No matter where the spade turns the soil, it uncovers broken pavements and corroding metal; and scholars write that the kind of sand that artists call polychrome (because flecks of every color are mixed with its whiteness) is actually not sand at all, but the glass of the past, now pounded to powder by aeons of tumbling in the clamorous sea.
The Shadow of the Torturer Wolfe, Gene 1980
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Now two years into the process, Gleason has learned to modulate the spectacular brilliance, allowing the polychrome coating to emphasize the underlying colors, to collaborate with the physicality of his paint.
Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011
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The dramatic main portal of the auditorium is flanked by massive bronze and polychrome marble figures representing "Comedy" and "Tragedy" by Gabriel-Jules Thomas.
Architecture as Allegory Barrymore Laurence Scherer 2011
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In Marcel Proust's "À la Recherche du Temps Perdu," when the narrator contemplates a large fish being served for lunch, he perceives that the fish, with its "numberless vertebrae, its blue and pink veins," had been constructed "like a polychrome cathedral of the deep."
Like Dining With Rabelais Moira Hodgson 2011
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Now two years into the process, Gleason has learned to modulate the spectacular brilliance, allowing the polychrome coating to emphasize the underlying colors, to collaborate with the physicality of his paint.
Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011
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Consider the conquistadors of Christian Spain erecting polychrome crucifixes and santos over the ruins of Teotihuacan and Cuzcuo, while holding ornamented monstrances of pristine silverwork over the corpses and captives of preColumbia.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011
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Now two years into the process, Gleason has learned to modulate the spectacular brilliance, allowing the polychrome coating to emphasize the underlying colors, to collaborate with the physicality of his paint.
Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011
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Consider the conquistadors of Christian Spain erecting polychrome crucifixes and santos over the ruins of Teotihuacan and Cuzcuo, while holding ornamented monstrances of pristine silverwork over the corpses and captives of preColumbia.
G. Roger Denson: China Takes Top Spot in Art Auction Sales Away From the US & UK -- What It Means for Global Culture G. Roger Denson 2011
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Now two years into the process, Gleason has learned to modulate the spectacular brilliance, allowing the polychrome coating to emphasize the underlying colors, to collaborate with the physicality of his paint.
Bill Bush: The Tawdry Three-Ring Circus of Venice: This Artweek.LA (April 4-10) Bill Bush 2011
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