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单词 oleograph
释义 oleograph|ˈəʊliːəgrɑːf, -æ-|
[f. oleo- + -graph.]
A picture printed in oil-colours in imitation of an oil-painting. Hence ˌoleoˈgraphic a., pertaining to oleographs or oleography; of the nature of or resembling an oleograph; oleoˈgraphically adv.; oleˈographist. Also oleoˈlithograph.
1873Young Englishwoman Sept. 466/1 Oleographs are now very cheap, and, if well chosen, are most pleasing.1880Webster Suppl., Oleograph.1885Pall Mall G. 1 June 6/1 Conventional oleographic enlargements of individual figures.1892Athenæum 2 July 33/1 It is oleographic in its delineations of the gushing aspirations of the school⁓room miss.1897M. Kingsley W. Africa 412 Framed oleographs of English farmyard scenes.1897W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1896 173 Seems..incredible even in Germany, with the sacred eikon of the Kaiser oleographically lowering over the scene.1907R. Brooke Let. 23 Aug. (1968) 100 The book plate of one Frederick Leighton—the notable oleographist, I take it?1922Joyce Ulysses 698 Artistic oleograph on inner face of door.1928D. L. Sayers Lord Peter views Body 176 Lord Peter sat down on a red velvet arm-chair, fixed his eyes on a gilt-framed oleograph, and became wrapped in contemplation.1939J. Cary Mr. Johnson 45 He is the happy husband adoring and adored in a perpetual and rather solemn dignity like an oleolithograph of the Royal Family.1974N. Freeling Dressing of Diamond 57 It was only in books that kidnappers had a handy stammer or a gold tooth, and a flat with a large coloured oleograph on the wall of President Kennedy, or the Pope, or Marilyn Monroe.
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