oleographicadj.
/ˌəʊlɪəˈɡrafɪk/, U.S. /ˈˌoʊlioʊˈɡræfɪk/ Relating to oleographs or oleography; of the nature of or resembling an oleograph.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [adjective] > types of
autographic1827
chromolithic1844
chromolithographic1845
autolithographic1861
lithochromatic1870
oleographic1885
trichromatic1896
1885 Pall Mall Gaz. 1 June 6/1 Conventional oleographic enlargements of individual figures.
1892 Athenæum 2 July 33/1 It is oleographic in its delineations of the gushing aspirations of the schoolroom miss.
1914 S. Graham With Poor Immigrants to Amer. viii. 149 He had an oleographic picture of an angel guiding a little girl over a footbridge.
1979 Shakespeare Q. 30 151/2 It is strange..that the great tragedy of disillusion should be dismissed as an oleographic sequence.
1993 Harper's Mag. July 40/2 At the public library, Muriel perused..the literary reviews in hopes of seeing some tiny oleographic copy of Sargent's latest picture.
Derivatives
oleoˈgraphically adv. in a manner reminiscent of an oleograph.
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society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > printmaking > surface and planographic printing > lithography > [adverb]
lithographically1828
oleographically1897
1897 W. Archer Theatr. ‘World’ 1896 173 Seems..incredible even in Germany, with the sacred eikon of the Kaiser oleographically lowering over the scene.
1956 A. Davidson tr. M. Praz Hero in Eclipse in Victorian Fiction ii. 203 Can one really speak of realism in connexion with a scene like the one between Mr. Bows and Pendennis.., which concludes in so oleographically edifying a manner?
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, March 2004; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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adj.1885