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Definition of Chromo
1. n. A chromolithograph.
Definition of Chromo
1. Noun. (chiefly historical) A color print produced by chromolithography ¹
2. Noun. (chiefly Australia) A prostitute. ¹
3. Adjective. (genetics) Of or relating to the chromodomain, a protein structural domain associated with chromatin production ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Chromo
1. a type of color picture [n -MOS]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chromo
Literary usage of Chromo
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Colour Printing and Colour Printers by R. M. Burch, William Gamble (1910)
"CHAPTER VIII chromo-LITHOGRAPHY SECTION II FROM THE EXHIBITION OF 1851 TO THE
PRESENT DAY HE Great Exhibition of 1851 formed a sort of general rendezvous ..."
2. Literary News by L. Pylodet, Augusta Harriet (Garrigue) Leypoldt (1889)
"Twelve new views beautifully executed in chromo-lithography, with guidebook and map
... Souvenir of Jersey—24 chromo views of the island, with guide-book. ..."
3. The New England Magazine by Making of America Project (1885)
"... improvement only by manual skill and by chemical progress, can be claimed by
others. chromo-lithography (printing in colors from stone) was experimented ..."
4. English Coloured Books by Martin Hardie (1906)
"CHAPTER XIX THE PROCESS OF chromo-LITHOGRAPHY BETWEEN 1830 and 1840 the aquatint
process was being gradually ousted from its dominion by the cheaper method ..."
5. Official Catalogue by United States Centennial Commission (1876)
"Breakwater at Calais, and other specimens of chromo-lithography. ... Specimens of
chromo-lithography, illustrating lithography, and one frame of wood ..."
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