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Polychrome   /pˈɑlˌikrˌoʊm/   Listen
Polychrome

verb
1.
Color with many colors; make polychrome.  Synonyms: polychromise, polychromize.






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"Polychrome" Quotes from Famous Books



... distinguished the transparent browns as indicative of gloom, and became acutely sensible of the presence and preciousness of light wherever local tints rose out of their depths. But however superior this method may be to the arbitrary use of polychrome shadows, utterly unrelated to the lights, which has been admitted in modern works; and however beautiful or brilliant its results might be in the hands of colorists as faithful as Van Eyck, or as inventive as Rubens; ...
— On the Old Road Vol. 1 (of 2) - A Collection of Miscellaneous Essays and Articles on Art and Literature • John Ruskin

... Greek temples were polychrome, that is to say, were painted in several colors, yellow, blue, and red. For a long time the moderns refused to believe this; it was thought that the Greeks possessed too sober taste to add color to an edifice. But traces of painting have been ...
— History Of Ancient Civilization • Charles Seignobos



Words linked to "Polychrome" :   colour in, colourise, colourize, coloured, work, piece of work, colorize, colorful, colorise, color, colored, colour, color in



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