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chromolithography

[ kroh-moh-li-thog-ruh-fee ]

noun

  1. the process of lithographing in colors from a series of plates or stones.


chromolithography

/ ˌkrəʊməʊlɪˈθɒɡrəfɪ; ˌkrəʊməʊlɪθəˈɡræfɪk /

noun

  1. the process of making coloured prints by lithography
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012
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Derived Forms

  • ˌdzDZˈٳDz, noun
  • chromolithographic, adjective
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Other yvlog Forms

  • m··ٳDz۲· noun
  • ··ٳ··· [kroh-m, uh, -lith-, uh, -, graf, -ik], adjective
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yvlog History and Origins

Origin of chromolithography1

First recorded in 1830–40; chromo- + lithography
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Example Sentences

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That year, using a color printing process called chromolithography, Prang created America’s first commercial Christmas card.

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In about 1860, however, he was driven from the market by the rise of a cheaper medium, chromolithography, which was responsible in the next few decades for a universal outpouring of popular bathos.

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It has been employed by this artist for three months, and was found equally successful in oil or water colours, chromolithography, and even in making white impressions on a black ground.

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When Ferdinand Lind looked out the next day from the window of his hotel, it was not at all the Venice of chromolithography that lay before him.

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It may seem an anticlimax to trace the color woodcut from Jackson to Baxter, and finally to chromolithography, but it is not irrelevant.

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