chromolithograph

[ kroh-muh-lith-uh-graf, -grahf ]

noun

1. a picture produced by chromolithography.

chromolithograph

/ ˌkrəʊməʊˈlɪθəˌɡrɑːf; -ˌɡræf /

noun

1. a picture produced by chromolithography

Word History and Origins

Origin of chromolithograph¹

First recorded in 1855–60; chromo- + lithograph

Example Sentences

Chromolithograph depicting the chariot race in Lew Wallce's Ben-Hur, circa 1890.

From Slate

He hated red hair, he said, making no allowance for the umber-red of Australian gold, and where I saw the lights of Limoges enamel he found no more than the garish tints of a chromolithograph.

From Project Gutenberg

Fifty-one full-page illustrations thirty-two artotypes, eighteen engravings, and one chromolithograph   Published by the Author . . .

From Project Gutenberg

That Nurse was ever young, Michael could not bring himself to believe, and daguerreotypes framed in tin-foil which she produced as evidence of youth from a square box inlaid with mother-o'-pearl, never convinced him as a chromolithograph might have convinced him.

From Project Gutenberg

The Academy would reject the picture for a chromolithograph.

From Project Gutenberg