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Technicolor

[ tek-ni-kuhl-er ]

Trademark.
  1. a brand name for a system of making color motion pictures by means of superimposing the three primary colors to produce a final colored print.


adjective

  1. (often lowercase) flamboyant or lurid, as in color, meaning, or detail.

Technicolor

/ ˈtɛknɪˌkʌlə /

noun

  1. the process of producing colour film by means of superimposing synchronized films of the same scene, each of which has a different colour filter, to obtain the desired mix of colour
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

It’s in Technicolor, and Judy’s in peak form – dancing with Fred Astaire.

The Smithsonian has a pair of Dorothy-worn ruby slippers, a film-used Scarecrow costume, a Technicolor camera from the “Oz” set and an original script — but no dress.

I thought maybe watching the city being repeatedly reduced to rubble at a whim—endless computer-generated buildings demolished into nothing more than Technicolor pixel dust—might give me the hits I needed.

On Monday, Nicole Richie debuted her latest Technicolor hairstyle—a side-swept Cerulean low bun—on Good Morning America.

After so many centuries of dull black-and-white, he led us bareheaded into an outdoor, Technicolor future.

For example, I know that he told me he was very interested in shooting it in--the word just slipped my mind… Technicolor?

"Beware" by Big Sean is awash in technicolor static, colorful sceneries overlaid over Big Sean.

I mean people who tell high-test, dry-aged, technicolor extravaganza sort of lies.

Later, she asked him if he had been having a bad dream and he said it had been closer to a nightmare in technicolor.

Texitalia Films is planning a 60-minute technicolor documentary to start.

He looked to his left, then felt a warm flush technicolor his cheeks.

So when you blacklist us with the Society, please let me know—I want to take a tri-di in technicolor of you doing it.

Piracy in the past has acquired the gaudy technicolor of high romance.

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