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.

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

  • noun dated A colour photograph produced by superimposing a translucent coloured positive over a strong uncoloured one.

Etymologies

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Ancient Greek

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