monochrome

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Shot in black monochrome, the editorial titled "Lonely Spirits" seeks to extract the loneliness, sadness and stress, baggage that models carry on a daily basis.

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  1. noun A picture, especially a painting, done in different shades of a single color.
  2. noun The art or technique of executing such a picture.
  3. noun The state of being in a single color.
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  • The thing in the cell shuddered in monochrome, and around it every dimension of real space-time fell apart. —  Gardner Dozois - The Year's Best Science Fiction 23rd Annual Collection (2006)
  • Nearly all was subfusc, monochrome, and yet so exquisite was the modelling that there was nothing bleak in it; the impression rather was of a chaste, docile luxuriance. —  SICK HEART RIVER
  • I like the monochrome-y feel of her clothes and the surroundings, it really makes her hair stand out. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
  • Shot in black monochrome, the editorial titled "Lonely Spirits" seeks to extract the loneliness, sadness and stress, baggage that models carry on a daily basis. —  FASHION INDIE » FASHION PORN
  • Love the monochrome, the dark blues really add the dramatic feel to it wroth is a long standing deviant dedicated to our community in many ways. —  Popular in the last 8 hours
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  1. Medieval Latin monochrōma, from feminine of Greek monokhrōmos, of one color : mono-, mono- + khrōma, color.

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  1. = French monochrome = Portuguese monochroma, from Middle Latin monochroma, feminine of Latin monochromos, from Greek μονόχρωμος, also μονοχρώματος, of one color (see monochromatic), from μόνος, single, + χρω̄μα, color.
 

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/ˈmɑnəkroʊm/
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