chromolithograph
Americannoun
noun
Etymology
Origin of chromolithograph
First recorded in 1855–60; chromo- + lithograph
Example Sentences
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Chromolithograph depicting the chariot race in Lew Wallce's Ben-Hur, circa 1890.
From Slate
He hated red hair, he said, making no allowance for the umber-red of Australian gold, and where I saw the lights of Limoges enamel he found no more than the garish tints of a chromolithograph.
From Project Gutenberg
Fifty-one full-page illustrations thirty-two artotypes, eighteen engravings, and one chromolithograph Published by the Author . . .
From Project Gutenberg
That Nurse was ever young, Michael could not bring himself to believe, and daguerreotypes framed in tin-foil which she produced as evidence of youth from a square box inlaid with mother-o'-pearl, never convinced him as a chromolithograph might have convinced him.
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The Academy would reject the picture for a chromolithograph.
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