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MONOCHROMY

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mon⋅o⋅chrome

  [mon-uh-krohm]
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–noun
1. a painting or drawing in different shades of a single color.
2. the art or technique of producing such a painting or drawing.
3. the state or condition of being painted, decorated, etc., in shades of a single color.
–adjective
4. being or made in the shades of a single color: a blue monochrome seascape.
5. having the images reproduced in tones of gray: monochrome television.
Origin:
1655–65; < ML monochrōma. See mono-, -chrome

Related forms:
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mic, mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mi⋅cal, adjective
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅mi⋅cal⋅ly, adverb
mon⋅o⋅chrom⋅ist, noun
mon⋅o⋅chro⋅my, noun
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Word Origin & History

monochrome 
1662, "painting or drawing done in different tints of a single color," from Gk. monochromos "of a single color," from monos "single, alone" + khroma (gen. khromatos) "color, complexion, skin." Photographic sense is recorded from 1940.
Online Etymology Dictionary, © 2001 Douglas Harper
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