Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun In photography, a picture produced by coloring on the back a positive lightly printed on a translucent paper, and placing this colored print exactly over a strong duplicate print.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun (Photog.) A colored photograph produced by superimposing a translucent colored positive over a strong uncolored one.
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- noun dated A colour
photograph produced bysuperimposing atranslucent colouredpositive over a strong uncoloured one.
Etymologies
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Ancient Greek
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