Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A lithograph.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A common technical abbreviation of
lithograph .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- A combining form from Gr. li`qos, stone.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- adjective
lithographic
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Examples
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I say, No. The production of them (in order to be lithographed), and the use of them in their "litho" state, are untruthful acts, untruthful in the very sanctuary of truth.
To My Younger Brethren Chapters on Pastoral Life and Work 1880
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How do i remove a lithograph, print from a book without harming the litho?
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UK residents over the age of 18 can have the opportunity to win a painting by Damien Hirst or one of 20 litho prints by the artist.
April 2009 2009
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Every time you answer a daily question you'll automatically enter another prize draw to win a further signed Damien Hirst litho print.
April 2009 2009
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You also get a large fridge magnet and a litho cell.
Michael Giltz: DVDs: "West Side Story" (Almost) Perfect In New BluRay Set Michael Giltz 2011
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Worst case of an overloaded truck I know off was some company trying to ship an entire printer base (full size offset litho printer for magazines) via ONE truck instead of by train (the way they should have shipped it).
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Each hand-numbered statuette comes carefully packaged in a custom-tooled, full-color, litho-printed tin box.
Dark Horse Title Shipping in December | Major Spoilers - Comic Book Reviews and News 2009
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He waited for the announcement, put his order in for the first of the lithographs, always hoping to get one of the top ten signed and numbered pieces, and always brought the litho in with great pride the day it arrived.
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About six years later, in another National Gallery image, Munch decides to make a printable version of that painted variation: He takes his black-and-white litho, then makes a wood-block image of the hair alone to be printed on top in red.
At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process 2010
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In the four versions in this show (others exist), we see the original black-and-white litho from the Epstein collection, and then the full Draculette treatment it gets a year or so later, in a hand-colored impression from the gallery's own holdings: Munch prints his litho onto ghoulish green paper, then brushes the woman's hair in orange-red so that it can drip bloodlike down her victim.
At National Gallery, Edvard Munch's 'Prints' reveal artist's methodical process 2010
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