cold tone
nounPhotography.
a bluish or greenish tinge in a black-and-white print.
- Compare warm tone.
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How to use cold tone in a sentence
"The fourth occasion was quite recently," Bézard said, still speaking in that same cold tone.
The Doctor of Pimlico | William Le QueuxA cold tone of gentle-blooded, high-middle-class respectability prevails.
Our Churches and Chapels | AtticusRust withdrew himself from her embrace, and without answering her question, said in a cold tone: ‘Come in the house.’
He took a chair, drew it to the fire, and pointing to another, said in the same cold tone: ‘Be seated.’
Her cold tone came back over her heat as the grey clouds of a bitter day shut down again upon a dangerous flicker of lightning.
The Fifth Queen | Ford Madox Ford
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