au·to·chrome

[aw-tuh-krohm]
noun Photography.
a material once used for color photography, consisting of a photographic emulsion applied over a multicolored screen of minute starch grains dyed red, green, and blue-violet.

Origin:
1905–10; auto-1 + -chrome

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