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duotone

duotone noun: any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph.

Noun

duotone (plural duotones)

  1. Any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph.

Adjective

duotone (not comparable)

  1. Having two tones.
    • He oozed prosperity from top hat to duotone shoes.1925, Life, page 21
    • We each wore blue sweaters over collared shirts. His was duotone, dark blue beneath the shoulders, periwinkle from the shoulders to the neck.2016, Ian Scheffler, “Proof”, in Cracking the Cube: Going Slow to Go Fast and Other Unexpected Turns in the World of Competitive Rubik’s Cube Solving, Touchstone, →ISBN, page 168

Forms of duotone

pluralduotones

Origin of duotone

From duo- + tone.

Questions about duotone

What does duotone mean?
Duotone means any picture printed in two shades of the same colour, such as a duotype or duograph.
What part of speech is duotone?
Duotone can be a noun or an adjective.
What is the plural of duotone?
The plural of duotone is duotones.

Words near duotone in the dictionary

  1. duotheisms
  2. duotheist
  3. duotheistic
  4. duotheists
  5. duotherapy
  6. duotone
  7. duotoned
  8. duotones
  9. duotrigesimal
  10. duotrigintillion
  11. duotype

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