bromoil

[ broh-moil ]

noun

, Photography.

1. an offset reproduction produced by the bromoil process.

Word History and Origins

Origin of bromoil¹

First recorded in 1905–10; brom- + oil

Example Sentences

He mastered the bromoil process early on and later developed and refined his own techniques for lighting, multiple exposures and the like.

From Los Angeles Times

A bromoil transfer print titled by Mr. Faber “Devotion, Austria 1914” is signed by Rudolf Koppitz.

From New York Times

It is the general effect that interests the outsider, and he cares not whether the print is a gum, a bromoil, a bromide, a platinum, or a palladiotype.

From Project Gutenberg

The beauty of a bromoil print, for instance, is supreme to its devotee: is its superiority to other processes worth the time and the toil necessary to make it, which might be devoted to the study of composition, of a wider range of subject, or to the mastery of simpler processes?

From Project Gutenberg

As to processes that are in favor, the bromoil and the bromoil transfer still continue to attract a host of workers.

From Project Gutenberg