four-colour
Britishnoun
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He was among a new wave of British illustrators who began work in the 1950s and 60s, an extraordinary flowering, benefiting from the greater availability of four-colour half-tone printing.
From The Guardian ● Dec. 14, 2012
A most useful condensed and abbreviated gazetteer of France, with a series of handy four-colour maps showing main roads sufficiently clearly for real use as an automobile route-book.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Cartes de Dion—Excellent four-colour maps of certain sections environing the great cities.
From The Automobilist Abroad by M. F. (Milburg Francisco) Mansfield
Occasionally three and four-colour machines are used, but the one-colour type is probably the most common.
From The Jute Industry: from Seed to Finished Cloth by T. Woodhouse
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