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  • noun Plural form of chromatrope.

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Examples

  • In all there were twenty slides, all of which were provided with movable figures; the last two being chromatropes, whose dancing colors elicited screams of delight from the astonished natives.

    By Sheer Pluck, a Tale of the Ashanti War 1867

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