bromoiln.
/ˈbrəʊmɔɪl/ Photography.
1. In full bromoil process, a process in which pigment is applied to a bleached bromide print.
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1909 Westm. Gaz. 9 Jan. 14/2 How many..camera-users ever attempt work in gum-bichromate or in bromoil?
1909 Amateur Photographer 3 Aug. 108/2 Most workers in the bromoil process not only use, but advocate, smooth, platino-matt.
1921 Glasgow Herald 13 July 7 A little knowledge of [art] may tend to convert a sound technical worker into a hopeless dabbler with bromoil or other media.
1952 E. O'Dion All about Photogr. xxix. 154 The Bromoil Process. Bromoil is a ‘high art’ process used largely for exhibition work, mainly because of the amount of control it allows.
2. In full bromoil print, one obtained by bleaching a bromide print and restoring the image by applying pigment with a brush; so bromoil transfer, a picture in reverse taken from a freshly pigmented print.
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1910 Westm. Gaz. 12 Mar. 14/2 When the photographer has grown tired of his silver-prints..Let him try platinum, carbon, bromoil.
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