Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun A chromolithograph printed with oil paint on canvas in imitation of an oil painting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Chem.) The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.
- noun (Painting) A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun art A type of
chromolithograph , usingoil paint oncanvas , that attempts to imitateoil painting
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Examples
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And it is noticeable that busy men, coming to art for pleasure when they are too weary for looking, listening, or thinking, so often prefer the sensation-novel, the music-hall song, and such painting as is but a costlier kind of oleograph; treating all other art as humbug, and art in general as a trifle wherewith to wile away a lazy moment, a trifle about which every man _can know what he likes best_.
Laurus Nobilis Chapters on Art and Life Vernon Lee 1895
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As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold).
Home Alone 2006
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As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold).
Home Alone 2006
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As soon as the door was opened, I was confronted by a loathsome oleograph of a Neapolitan shepherdess (that same oleograph used to turn up often in the shops where unclaimed objects from the state pawnshop, the Monte di Pietà, are sold).
Home Alone 2006
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WBY wrote an essay on the bleeding oleograph, but chose not to publish it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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WBY wrote an essay on the bleeding oleograph, but chose not to publish it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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WBY wrote an essay on the bleeding oleograph, but chose not to publish it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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WBY wrote an essay on the bleeding oleograph, but chose not to publish it.
Collected Works of W. B. Yeats Volume III Autobiographies W.B. Yeats 1965
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That was really most singular green hair on that Christ in the oleograph.
Hunger 2003
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In a land where a bus or taxi driver hangs an oleograph of a deity on the dashboard and decorates it with garlands of fresh flowers, where merchants set an idol upon their cashboxes and shopkeepers do not begin their trade before lighting incense and intoning prayers to their chosen god, the presence of the divine is so pervasive as to become intimate and familiar, woven into the texture of everyday.
India: The Seed of Destruction Desai, Anita 1991
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