The Collaborative International Dictionary
Oleograph \O`le*o*graph\, n. [L. oleum oil + -graph.]
(Chem.) The form or figure assumed by a drop of oil when placed upon water or some other liquid with which it does not mix.
(Painting) A picture produced in oils by a process analogous to that of lithographic printing.
Wiktionary
n. (context arts English) A type of chromolithograph, using oil paint on canvas, that attempts to imitate oil painting
Usage examples of "oleograph".
The two friends slept bed to bed under an oleograph showing the Crane Gate, the observatory, and the Long Bridge in winter with ice floes.
All I see is that field-gray, at once haggard and bullish, he clutches the desk top with both hands and stares over our heads at an oleograph on the rear wall of the classroom: the spinach-green Thoma landscape.
And, while he returned the kiss with equal tenderness and pleasure, one mild blue eye looked down upon her soft brown hair, and the other glanced sideways, without a trace of meaning in it, at the oleograph of Napoleon on Elba that hung upon the wall.
It was largely to little Minks that he owed this positive conviction and belief, to that ridiculous, high-souled Montmorency Minks, who, while his master worked in overalls, took the air himself on Clapham Common, or pored with a wet towel round his brow beneath the oleograph of Napoleon in the attempt to squeeze his exuberant emotion into tripping verse.
A gaudy oleograph of a soldier on horseback--which little Peter had been fond of, and which had been hung up to amuse him during one of those childish illnesses--remained in its place.
It was only in books that kidnappers had a handy stammer or a gold tooth, and a flat with a large colored oleograph of President Kennedy, or the Pope, or Marilyn Monroe on the wall.
I had an image of a dreadful oleograph of Disraeli hanging on the wall.
But, now, I cannot for the life of me remember whether there was such an oleograph or not.
The majority of these are small cheap oleographs, but there was one water-colour sketch of the head of a young lady which arrested my attention.
Inside, the main room was roughly fitted up as a study -- deal table, unpainted shelves with books, and a few cheap oleographs upon the wall.
He occasionally cleans and repairs clocks and watches and sometimes deals in oleographs, engravings and pictures.
Everything was old, but not old enough for beauty: shabby furniture of last century, odds and ends of china, threadbare carpets, darned curtains, oleographs on the walls - a home carefully kept, but without comfort or grace.
Belgrade lodgings, and the whitewashed plaster walls were free of garish oleographs of Orthodox saints.
They looked clean, and the bonus tea vases, the rancid, gilt-framed oleographs, two toilet tidies used as ornaments, and the fact that the chest of drawers had been crowded out of the bedroom into the sitting-room, simply appealed to his sense of humour.
Lewisham hovered about the front room pulling his moustache and pretending to admire the oleographs, surprised to find himself trembling.