oleograph
Americannoun
noun
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a chromolithograph printed in oil colours to imitate the appearance of an oil painting
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the pattern formed by a drop of oil spreading on water
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She looked at the plain furniture and cheap carpet; the wallpaper was hideous; there was a frightful oleograph of two Early Victorian women with crinolines and ringlet curls hanging over the mantlepiece.
From The Phantom Lover by Ayres, Ruby M. (Ruby Mildred)
Certainly his etchings of Montmartre and views of the Sussex Downs would never be hallowed by the associations that made sacred this oleograph of a Christmas Annual.
From Sinister Street, vol. 1 by MacKenzie, Compton
Between the dirtysugar sands of the desert and the oleograph sky it was a third band of brilliant color, monstrously outofplace.
From Greener Than You Think by Moore, Ward
I’ve a rather striking oleograph of the Kaiser.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold
One day he stood before the oleograph, apparently examining with deep interest the different aspects of the Swiss scenery.
From A Mummer's Wife by Moore, George (George Augustus)
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