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Definition of Polychrome

1. Noun. A piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors.

2. Verb. Color with many colors; make polychrome.

3. Adjective. Having or exhibiting many colors.

Definition of Polychrome

1. n. Esculin; -- so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions.

2. a. Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing.

Definition of Polychrome

1. Adjective. Executed in the manner of polychromy; as, polychrome printing. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Polychrome

1. [v -CHROMED, -CHROMING, -CHROMES]

Medical Definition of Polychrome

1. Esculin; so called in allusion to its fluorescent solutions. Origin: Poly- + Gr. Colour. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Polychrome

polychromaemia polychromasia polychromate polychromates polychromatic polychromatic acid polychromatic cell polychromatocyte polychromatophil cell polychromatophile

polychromatophilia polychromatophilic polychromator polychromators polychromatosis polychrome (current term) polychrome methylene blue polychromed polychromes polychromia

polychromic polychromies polychroming polychromise polychromize polychromophil polychromophilia polychromous polychromy polychronic

Literary usage of Polychrome

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

1. Archeological Explorations in Northeastern Arizona by Alfred Vincent Kidder, Samuel James Guernsey (1919)
"Decorations of polychrome redware. The general method of decoration, as outlined above, can easily be made out from sherds, but as most of the designs are ..."

2. Memoirs of the Connecticut Academy of Arts & Sciences by Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, Yale University (1911)
"The largest vase of the polychrome group and indeed of the entire collection ... Similar forms occur on one of the polychrome vases belonging to the United ..."

3. The Ecclesiologist by Ecclesiological Society (1859)
"I think the most determined advocate of indiscriminate polychrome will hardly venture to gainsay the justice of this reasoning. It will prove at least that ..."

4. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"... qua: supersunt' (1867-75); 'Sacred Books of the Old Testament' (polychrome Bible, Heb. .... polychrome ..."

5. Men of the Old Stone Age: Their Environment, Life and Art by Henry Fairfield Osborn (1915)
"Thus gradually a complete polychrome fresco art develops. The final stage of this art follows, in which the filling out of various tones of color requires ..."

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