coloroto

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noun

A rotogravure produced in color.

Scrabble 10

Meanings

nouncoloroto (plural colorotos)

plural colorotos

  1. historicalA rotogravure produced in color.

    […] the trouble in manipulating the colorotos and rotogravures.

    1923, Editor & Publisher, volume 56, numbers 2-28, page 8
    2 more examples

    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

    The production's colors, though, are very monochromatic—muted, lots of browns, creams, beiges, dark blues, bottle greens, like a coloroto section of an old newspaper.

    1976, Tom Burke, Burke's Steerage, page 29
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