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three-colour

adjective

  1. of, relating to, or comprising a colour print or a photomechanical process in which a picture is reproduced by superimposing three prints from half-tone plates in inks corresponding to the three primary colours
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Example Sentences

These three topical colours are applied at once by the three-colour cylinder machine; dried and steamed.

In colour reproduction, a method largely used is that known as the three-colour process.

Three-colour process blocks, being a development of this, are open to the same objections.

Between 1755 and 1764, the great period of the three-colour print, Toyonobu stood almost unmatched in the field.

His work falls almost entirely within the class of two- and three-colour prints.

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