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chromolithographic

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Pertaining to or executed in chromolithography.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective Pertjining tj, or maoe by, coromolithography.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Pertaining to, or made by, chromolithography.

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Examples

  • Sheet music, printed in Philadelphia and New York with ornate typefaces under lavish chromolithographic covers, carried popular tunes via stage and steamer into the interior.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • Sheet music, printed in Philadelphia and New York with ornate typefaces under lavish chromolithographic covers, carried popular tunes via stage and steamer into the interior.

    Mark Twain Ron Powers 2005

  • + "Musaici delle chiese di Roma anteriori al secolo XV" (Rome, 1872), an imperial folio consisting of chromolithographic plates with a text in French and Italian.

    The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 4: Clandestinity-Diocesan Chancery 1840-1916 1913

  • Dante, shown up by coloured lights, and against chromolithographic backgrounds, while all the diabolic intelligence is set to work on the cheap triumph of wheedling a widow and screwing Rhenish and Tokay with a gimlet out of an inn table: it is partly Goethe's fault, and partly the fault of Wills, and partly the lowering trick of the stage.

    Plays, Acting and Music A Book Of Theory Arthur Symons 1905

  • They merely frighten the sky at evening into violent chromolithographic effects.

    Selected Prose of Oscar Wilde Oscar Wilde 1877

  • They merely frighten the sky at evening into violent chromolithographic effects.

    Intentions Oscar Wilde 1877

  • In addition to his cartographic productions, Bien issued exquisite chromolithographic reproductions of Audubon's Birds of America.

    David Rumsey Maps Michael Gubitosa 2009

  • Chinamen (cited by Mr Candidate Mulligan) in consequence of defective reunion of the maxillary knobs along the medial line so that (as he said) one ear could hear what the other spoke, the benefits of anesthesia or twilight sleep, the prolongation of labour pains in advanced gravidancy by reason of pressure on the vein, the premature relentment of the amniotic fluid (as exemplified in the actual case) with consequent peril of sepsis to the matrix, artificial insemination by means of syringes, involution of the womb consequent upon the menopause, the problem of the perpetration of the species in the case of females impregnated by delinquent rape, that distressing manner of delivery called by the Brandenburghers STURZGEBURT, the recorded instances of multiseminal, twikindled and monstrous births conceived during the catamenic period or of consanguineous parents — in a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations.

    Ulysses 2003

  • a word all the cases of human nativity which Aristotle has classified in his masterpiece with chromolithographic illustrations.

    Ulysses James Joyce 1911

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