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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He listened, smiling like the rising sun in an oleograph, and twisting in his huge hands, that were tinted with the henna, the staff with the apple-green ribbons.
From Halima And The Scorpions 1905 by Robert Smythe Hichens
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 Dornford Yates
A sofa with its American-leather torn and peeling, a humble greasy-looking chair, a table covered with a little of paper, and a wretched oleograph on the wall, that was all I saw.
From Love by Constance Garnett
An oleograph of Queen Victoria in coronation robes hung on one side and the painted photograph of a Nonconformist divine, Bible in hand, whiskered and cravatted, upon the other.
From The Necromancers by Robert Hugh Benson
That was really most singular green hair on that Christ in the oleograph.
From Hunger by Knut Hamsun
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