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Monochrome

noun

Painting done in a range of tones of a single color.

A black-and-white photograph or slide. Synonym: black and white.

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"Monochrome" Quotes from Famous Books

... ceased after the second floor), crossed a shabby antechamber, and came into the presence in a little wainscoted drawing-room, beyond a dimly-lit salon. The carved woodwork, in the taste of the eighteenth century, had been painted gray. There were monochrome paintings on the frieze panels, and the walls were adorned with crimson damask with a meagre border. The old-fashioned furniture shrank piteously from sight under covers of a red-and-white check pattern. On the sofa, covered ...

— Two Poets - Lost Illusions Part I • Honore de Balzac

... no two being alike. The pumas were for the most part bright red, but some were reddish gray, there being much the same dichromatism that I found among their Colorado kinsfolk. The jaguarundis were dark brownish gray. All these animals, the spotted jaguars and ocelots, the monochrome black jaguars, red pumas, and dark-gray jaguarundis, were killed in the same locality, with the same environment. A glance at the skins and a moment's serious thought would have been enough to show any sincere thinker that in these cats ...

— Through the Brazilian Wilderness • Theodore Roosevelt

Words linked to "Monochrome" : colored, photo, coloured, photograph, colorful, picture, monochromic, painting, exposure, pic