monotintn.
/ˈmɒnə(ʊ)tɪnt/, U.S. /ˈmɑnəˌtɪnt/ Representation in shades of a single colour (chiefly in in monotint); a picture in shades of a single colour. Also in extended use.
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monochrome1851
monotintc1875
monotone1896
monocolour1963
mono1983
c1875 W. E. Henley in Times Lit. Suppl. (1918) 138/2 The Hospital is horrible to me: Its monotint my being overtakes.
1886 Contemp. Rev. Sept. 405 To borrow the language of painting, the characters are mere studies in mono-tint.
1886 Athenæum 28 Aug. 273/3 The list of books..includes..‘All round the Clock’, from original drawings in colour and monotint by Harriett M. Bennett.
1896 Dict. National Biogr. at Pole, Thomas Love of art..found expression in many water-colour drawings of landscape and architecture, in monotints and silhouettes.
1929 J. Buchan Courts of Morning ii. i. 155 The tropic dawn broadened fast..greenness broke through the monotint.
1992 Callaloo 15 ii. (following p. 696) (caption) Untitled (1960) by Hervé Télémaque. Monotint, 27″ × 31″.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2002; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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