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Definition of Monochrome

1. Noun. Painting done in a range of tones of a single color.

2. Adjective. Having or appearing to have only one color.

3. Noun. A black-and-white photograph or slide.

Definition of Monochrome

1. n. A painting or drawing in a single color; a picture made with a single color.

Definition of Monochrome

1. Noun. A black and white image, especially such a photograph. ¹

2. Noun. (dated) A painting executed in shades of a single colour. ¹

3. Noun. A ceramic glaze of a single colour; an object so glazed. ¹

4. Adjective. having only one colour ¹

5. Adjective. (photography) representing colours with shades of gray ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Monochrome

1. [n -S]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Monochrome

monochromatic rays monochromatic vision monochromatically monochromaticity monochromatism monochromatisms monochromatization monochromatize monochromatized monochromatizes

monochromatizing monochromatophil monochromator monochromators monochromats monochrome (current term) monochromes monochromia monochromic monochromies

monochromist monochromists monochromophil monochromous monochromy monochronic monociliate monociliated monocistronic monocistronic RNA

Literary usage of Monochrome

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Publishers Weekly by Publishers' Board of Trade (U.S.), Book Trade Association of Philadelphia, American Book Trade Union, Am. Book Trade Association, R.R. Bowker Company (1890)
"36 pages, printed in monochrome and color. Illuminated board covers, 50 cents. ... 36 pages in color and monochrome. Illuminated boards, 50 cents. ..."

2. The Practice of Oil Painting and of Drawing as Associated with it by Solomon Joseph Solomon (1910)
"CHAPTER VIII monochrome STUDY I SHOULD certainly not advise you to paint in full ... monochrome painting is by far the best initial practice ; you will no ..."

3. The Dial edited by Francis Fisher Browne (1892)
"Ж> pages of full-page color and monochrome illustrations, after BlR- KET FOSTER. ... 48 pages color and monochrome illustrations by LOUISE, Marchioness of ..."

4. A Lm Ia Ceramic Kiln in South-Central Crete: Function and Pottery Production by Joseph W. Shaw (2001)
"SEM photomicrograph of a monochrome conical cup (95/11) with incomplete vitrification. ... The other seven monochrome vessels studied were four ewers, ..."

5. Descriptive and Historical Catalogue of a Collection of Japanese and Chinese by William Anderson (1886)
"Noted for landscapes in monochrome and colours. KEI-KA. A follower of SHIU-BUN. Noted for pictures of flowers and birds in monochrome. SHO-KEI. ..."

6. Vasari on Technique: Being the Introduction to the Three Arts of Design by Giorgio Vasari (1907)
"Concerning the Compositions and Figures made in Inlaid Work on Pavements in imitation of objects in monochrome. § 97. Pavements in Marble Mosaic and ..."

7. The Graphic Arts: A Treatise on the Varieties of Drawing, Painting, and by Philip Gilbert Hamerton (1891)
"WATER monochrome. INSTEAD of treating Indian ink, sepia, &c., in separate chapters, I class them together in one, as water monochromes. They are, in fact, ..."

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