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coloroto

coloroto noun: a rotogravure produced in color.

Noun

coloroto (plural colorotos)

  1. (historical) A rotogravure produced in color.
    • […] the trouble in manipulating the colorotos and rotogravures.1923, Editor & Publisher, volume 56, numbers 2-28, page 8
    • The progress of newspaper illustration can be traced in a few decades from the woodcut through line engraving, the half-tone, the mezzotint process, to rotogravure and coloroto.1927, The Iowa Journalist, volumes 3-4, page 3

Forms of coloroto

pluralcolorotos

Questions about coloroto

What does coloroto mean?
Coloroto means a rotogravure produced in color.
What part of speech is coloroto?
Coloroto is a noun.
What is the plural of coloroto?
The plural of coloroto is colorotos.

Words near coloroto in the dictionary

  1. colorology
  2. colorometric
  3. colorometrically
  4. coloron
  5. colorons
  6. coloroto
  7. colorotos
  8. colorous
  9. colorphobia
  10. colorphobic
  11. colorpoint

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