What is "chromo"

Usage examples of "chromo".

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A month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, done in oil, water, chromo, wood, steel, copper, crayon, and photography, and so it had at length become a shape to us--and a very distinct, decided, and familiar one, too.

Nobody she said, the paper towel knotted tight in her hand, turning for the harsh chromo of boats on green water.

With the exception of the novel now and then which touches some religious problem or some socialistic speculation or uneasiness, or is a special freak of sensationalism, the novels which suit the greatest number of readers are those which move in a plane of absolute mediocrity, and have the slightest claim to be considered works of art. They represent the chromo stage of development.

A month before, this mountain had been only a name to us, but latterly we had been moving through a steadily thickening double row of pictures of it, done in oil, water, chromo, wood, steel, copper, crayon, and photography, and so it had at length become a shape to us--and a very distinct, decided, and familiar one, too.

Nobody she said, the paper towel knotted tight in her hand, turning for the harsh chromo of boats on green water.

The red-headed man at his loud declaration merely glanced in the direction of the chromo and returned to his enchellados.

The hotels, the cheap shops, the cottages, are all of wood, and, with three or four exceptions in the thousands, they are all practically alike, all ornamented with scroll-work, as if cut out by the jig-saw, all vividly painted, all appealing to a primitive taste just awakening to the appreciation of the gaudy chromo and the illuminated and consoling household motto.

On the walls of the living room were hung highly colored advertising chromos of steamships and palaces of industry, and on the bureau Edith noticed two illustrated newspapers of the last year, a patent-medicine almanac, and a volume of Schiller.

The chromos hung lopsidedly where he'd left them, and the easel had Don's drip-dry socks hanging on it.

Quirk, if you play your cards right, you'll get a certificate of inspection for nothing and a chromo as a pelon.

No soap, no chromos, no vegetables, no hair oil, no books, no baking powder.

That man will know a painting next time he sees one, and then he won't rest till he has bought a chromo, and so he will go on.

There were ten of the beautiful bonds of the Great Lakes and Canadian Southern Railroad Company with their miniature locomotives and fields of wheat, and ten equally lovely bits of engraving belonging to the long-since defunct Bluff Creek and Iowa Central, ten more superb lithographs issued by the Mohawk and Housatonic in 1867 and paid off in 1882, and a variety of gorgeous chromos of Indians and buffaloes, and of factories and steamships spouting clouds of soft-coal smoke.

She stood in the center of the big dingy parlor, gazing round at the grimed chromos until Mrs.