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/pˌɒlɪkɹˈəʊm/
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[ US /ˈpɑˌɫiˌkɹoʊm/ ]
[ US /ˈpɑˌɫiˌkɹoʊm/ ]
VERB
- color with many colors; make polychrome
NOUN
- a piece of work composed of or decorated in many colors
ADJECTIVE
- having or exhibiting many colors
How To Use polychrome In A Sentence
- Perhaps the artist has bee brought in to polychrome a plaster relievo for an architectural decoration, and it is some third party sculptors studio. Easel on Rails
- Brethren of St. Francis and their clients, which still roughen the pavement of Santa Croce at Florence, and recall the varnished polychrome decoration of those Greek monuments in connexion with the worn-out blazonry of the funeral brasses of England and Flanders. Greek Studies: a Series of Essays
- It's difficult to decide, too, whether the resulting structures are acutely inflected paintings or polychrome sculptures.
- Polychrome was used to produce jewelry with a lot of different themes using openwork motifs and several linked items.
- Fabrics varied, and included calendared or glazed fabrics of wool, plain or floral printed calicos and muslins, and glazed chintz monochrome or polychrome prints.
- Sures must have had tongue in cheek when she contrived Ghirlandina, a cast-paper relief of an old, crooked, leaning tower, wonderfully abraded and polychromed.
- Some were beautifully illustrated in color; no doubt providing the source of some of the polychrome flower painting that sometimes complemented black and white penwork in the late 1820s and 1830s.
- The site of the polychrome pots seemed to be somewhere west of the town, in roadless country where a horse would be necessary. A THIEF OF TIME
- Cennini's treatise describes methods for polychromy which can be recognized in surviving medieval polychromed sculpture, and generally its function was to add naturalistic colour to sculptures.
- The motifs and figures represented include polychrome images of bison, masks, and quadrilateral signs of unknown meaning.