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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And she was as pretty as any oleograph of them all.
From The Incomplete Amorist by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
It was all still and unemotional as a Sunday School oleograph.
From Man and Maid by Nesbit, E. (Edith)
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)
I’ve a rather striking oleograph of the Kaiser.
From Masters of the Wheat-Lands by Bindloss, Harold
When it was over, I lighted her cigarette, and drew her attention to the oleograph, which pictured Gideon's astonishment at the condition of what, on examination, proved to be a large fleece.
From The Brother of Daphne by Yates, Dornford
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