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autochrome

Definition of autochrome

noun

[mass noun, usually as modifier]
  • an early form of colour photography using plates coated with dyed starch grains, patented by the Lumière brothers in 1904: the autochrome process
  • [count noun] a colour photograph made using the autochrome process.

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Definition of autochrome in the US English dictionary
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