Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A photo-engraving process for producing images adapted for hand-coloring.
- noun A picture produced by this process.
- noun A sheet of printed matter from types or engraved blocks where a number of forms are used, each one with an ink of a different color, as in chromolithography (which see).
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun A sheet printed in colors by any process, as a chromolithograph. See
chromolithograph . - noun A photographic picture in the natural colors.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun dated A sheet printed in colour by any process, such as a
chromolithograph . - noun dated A
photographic picture in the natural colours.
Etymologies
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Examples
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F. de Méndez, in the _Revista Agustiniana_ (1881), quoted (p. 351) Juan Quijano, a contemporary whose chronicle is now lost, as saying that when Luis de Leon was elected Provincial he was already confined to his bed with the illness of which he died.] [Footnote 261: The portrait and character-sketch will be found in the photo-chromotype reproduction of Francisco Pacheco, _Libro de descripcion de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones_.
Fray Luis de León A Biographical Fragment James Fitzmaurice-Kelly
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As for E. Hunt’s chromotype process,” (2) I have mixed gelatine, or occasionally grape sugar, or both, with the solution, but instead of developing it by a silver solution, as in the chromotype, wash out the salts unacted on by light, and develop by floating on a solution of ferrocyanide of potassium.
Photographic Reproduction Processes Peter C. Duchochois
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F. de Mendez, in the Revista Agustiniana (1881), quoted (p. 351) Juan Quijano, a contemporary whose chronicle is now lost, as saying that when Luis de Leon was elected Provincial he was already confined to his bed with the illness of which he died.] [Footnote 261: The portrait and character-sketch will be found in the photo-chromotype reproduction of Francisco Pacheco, Libro de descripcion de verdaderos retratos de illustres y memorables varones.
Fray Luis de Leon Fitzmaurice-Kelly, James 1921
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